Word: grows
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...philosophy. He wrote some speeches for Khomeini but is otherwise the first President who lacks revolutionary credentials. His own campaign speeches promised more freedom and tolerance. "Our country has a long way to go," he said in his last speech. "The government doesn't give people the opportunity to grow...
...Antonio Villamil from Washington Economics Group. An influential lot, for sure. Yet they can't measure whether computers are making people more productive. They can't agree on whether Americans are better or worse off than a few years ago. They don't know if the economy can grow faster and unemployment recede further without whipping up inflation. They can't even decide how to gauge inflation. "It's like a Rorschach," says Yardeni. "You take the data set. You see what you want...
...upshot is that Roach believes gross domestic product can grow safely at 2% to 2.5% a year, yet Sinai thinks it's 2.5% to 3%, and Yardeni says maybe 4%--big discrepancies in an $8 trillion economy that has lately been exceeding all those figures. The difference between 2.5% and 4% growth is $120 billion. That'd put a new car in a few driveways. The knowledge gap is widest when productivity is assessed. We assume that computers increase employee output. But Blinder wonders if we aren't using computers to get the usual amount of work done and then...
...registered nurse, and I became interested in alternative medicine a while back when I learned about medical uses for plants I grow in my garden. I hesitantly tried a few things. They worked! For two years, I coped with seasonal allergies and tonsillitis by using the herb echinacea and calendula tea. I have seen what the uncontrolled prescribing of antibiotics can do. Through alternative medicine, I have found treatments for such things as hyperactivity, impetigo and canker sores. We should not give up on conventional medicine, but it is the true healer's obligation to present all the options available...
MONEY DOESN'T GROW ON TREES--BUT SOMEDAY...