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...shore. "All fisheries are turning gradually into deep-sea fisheries because they have fished themselves out of the shallow waters," says Robert Steneck, a marine ecologist at the University of Maine. "The solution is not going into the deep sea, but better managing the shallow waters, where fish live fast and die young but where the ecosystems have greater potential for resilience...
...grow up in stores or merchants that were doing business with cash and check. If you go back 20 years ago, you couldn't use a credit card in any grocery store in the United States, basically. It was a rarity. In the U.S., debit is catching up real fast with the rest of the world. MasterCard debit is growing at 15% to 20% per year. That plays into the global capabilities of the organization because we're learning lessons in different markets...
...merchants that really benefit from this? This tends to capture smaller transactions. It tends to capture places where there are queues--fast-service restaurants, parking lots, transit, buses, subways--where time is really important. So you go back three years ago, you could not pay with a card in McDonald's. The last thing they want to do is add 10 seconds to the time it takes to get you, after you get your food, away from the cash register. We found out, hey, the signature and the PIN--that adds a lot of time. So we said, Fine...
There is something noble about this. Driving hundreds of miles across Iowa, fueled by fast food and a few hours of sleep, Willie Lomaning to groups of 20, selling them on how to make our country better. You have to be real close, however, to see this nobility. Because from a distance, running for President as a second- or third-tier candidate looks like self-delusional narcissism...
...distrust the governor, and for good reason. The press prints him as the flip-flopping Mormon from Massachusetts. Pundits deem his political discipline robotic: he’s incapable of emotion, they warn, and driven by self-interest. When Romney has shown otherwise, he’s pulled a fast one on us—ever the salesman, always shifting his stances...