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...here, a tuck there. What the U.S. economy desperately needs, many experts now argue, is the equivalent of open-heart surgery. The key to the economic transformation: basic investment in capital improvements and not in consumption. The notion would be to rebuild a public environment in which businesses could flourish. In this way, America's waning competitiveness in global markets might be restored...
...experimental paradigm in a lab, and they will show cracks under the stress of success. But there are also identifiable developmental influences that render some individuals more susceptible than others to self-sabotage. They are like a virus that lies dormant unless it's given the right environment to flourish. What causes the germ seed of the "healthy" narcissist to explode is really the success beyond which he or she can't comfortably proceed. It creates a level of arrogance at which some of them, such as a Gutfreund or Levine, cease following rules. That's really the classic undoing...
...terms were not created by Marx. Here 90% of the population is peasants. For democracy to flourish in Africa you have to involve the population. Without rational economic policies you can't involve the population. Without democracy you cannot make rational economic policies work...
When aides suggested that he veto the $6.4 billion unemployment-benefits bill with no fanfare, Bush would have none of it. He ordered a Rose Garden offensive with his political general staff assembled for the cameras, and he signed the veto with a flourish. As House Minority Leader Robert Michel left the scene, he muttered, only partly in jest, "Could you airbrush me out of this picture...
Some of the University's smaller faculties, such as Harvard Divinity School, the Graduate School of Design and the Graduate School of Education, have found themselves starved for funds, while others, like Harvard Business School, flourish. Although all of these fields are considered vital to the greater good of the University, Design, Divinity and Education alumni will probably never be able to produce as much in contributions as the graduates of the Law School or the Business School...