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The market has probably hit a point where a lot of good news is out and some bad news is almost certainly on the way. Most of the good news is about the chances that the financial markets can be fixed. Most of the bad news is likely to be...
There are other drawbacks to these employment measures, subsidized or not. The biggest is that only workers on fixed full-time employment contracts tend to be covered by the schemes. But they aren't necessarily the most vulnerable to job cuts in hard times; rather, it's the millions of...
Malcolm Gladwell Outliers is the most recent book by the best-selling author of Blink and The Tipping Point Richard Nisbett's Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count is a devastating and persuasive refutation of all those who believe intellectual ability is fixed at birth...
Even students from the Boston area are not immune. While most students are very cognizant of the fact that their daily interactions occur with a fixed group of people in self-contained environments, they fail to see that their perception of Massachusetts lies within the bubble as well.
By the mid-1980s, the war on drugs was in full swing, as the crack epidemic threatened to overwhelm American cities' criminal justice systems. Drug crimes had become increasingly violent, prompting calls for even stricter mandatory minimum sentencing laws. In 1986, the Reagan Administration passed a law requiring federal judges...