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...help the rich. Common sense says that you can’t help the poor by getting rid of taxes and relying on charitable contributions. Scriptural evidence reveals that Christians should be fighting poverty, not the labeling on holiday stationary. Despite the efforts of hundreds of religious leaders to halt this immoral bill, it passed both Houses of Congress and is about to become law. How can so many people who claim to live by Jesus’ teachings support a bill that cuts funding that is necessary to feed, clothe, and care for so many...
...would be very personally unhappy if we allowed our work to grind altogether to a halt,” he added, before introducing Dudley Professor of Stuctural and Economic Geology John Shaw...
...curricular review’s progress ground to a halt last year as Faculty meetings were monopolized with discussion of Summers’ comments on women in science, culminating in a vote of no-confidence in March...
...Washington, U.S. officials have largely sought to tackle the lopsided relationship with China by calling on the Chinese to revalue their currency as a way of making their goods more expensive and thus reducing consumer demand. China obliged last year with a small adjustment. But that failed to halt the growing trade imbalance, and the economists were in agreement that currency adjustments alone won't be enough to reduce the U.S. deficits. At the end of last year, China officially adjusted the size of its economy in an attempt to better reflect the plethora of activity taking place that wasn...
...company's new drive for innovation includes a painful restructuring plan--closing perhaps as many as 10 of 43 plants with some 25,000 job cuts out of a total of 123,000 in North America. The cutbacks are designed to halt the company's losses on its domestic auto operations--$1.2 billion in just the third quarter of 2005--and shore up a credit rating that began to deteriorate last year to junk-bond status. Turning that around while pursuing his philosophical imperatives will be a fancy juggling act. Previous CEOs have repeatedly tried to reinvent the company without...