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...them. The psychology is very interesting. When the recession is running at its peak, the last group in the world you as a parent want to penalize is the kids. You will say to yourself, "I'm in a recession right now, I can cope with it, that's fine, but my kids should never suffer for me." When you finally go out in the supermarket, you as a parent are much more likely to give in, and basically say "You can buy" because you feel guilty. Kids are very aware of this. I'm in Thailand here, just doing...
...government's reaction then was to fine companies who broke new anti-pollution laws and, in some cases, give them tax credits for being better environmental citizens. Tax credits do not have much use in a recession when many companies do not pay taxes because they are losing money or do not have the spare cash to modify existing production habits...
...wrote that cutting late night shuttles puts students in danger. “[T]he cost of keeping Harvard students safe is never ‘unnecessary spending,’” they wrote. “To suggest that we stop whining and start walking is fine during daylight hours (and in warm months). But we constantly receive Community Advisories which alert us to the rising rates of violent crime against both men and women in the area.” Ury is a former Crimson associate magazine editor. George J.J. Hayward...
...Great achievements now don’t necessarily guarantee a future of emotional well-being. Almost a third of the Harvard men in the study ended up meeting the criteria for mental illness at some point in their lives—and those who were fine at the beginning of the study were not necessarily the ones who were doing well at the end of their lives. So those high-achievers who do all their reading, snap up all the departmental prizes and fellowships, and ruin your curve? They’re not set for life after...
...point: Uniqlo, the local entry in the segment, seems to be doing just fine. Tadashi Yanai, a cheap-chic guru and head of Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, is now Japan's richest man, according to Forbes magazine. While most retailers are seeing same-store sales drop between 5% and 15%, Uniqlo's same-store sales rose 2.9% for fiscal year 2008 and 12.9% in the six months to February this year. "Uniqlo is the only big winner so far," says Murata of Credit Suisse, who thinks that for non-Japanese fast-fashion companies such as Forever...