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...ironic that the Pulitzer Prize winner fumbled in this area. Back in 1987, she caught then presidential-hopeful Joe Biden borrowing heavily from a British politician's speech. On the other hand, things worked...
...prepackaged justification argument. With women, brands now are basically saying there's one side which is the emotional side, that is, "I love it, I can't live without it, I'll look sexy and popular and whatever." On the other side, they are providing rational arguments to hand over to the husband when they come home. When the husband sees this bag and says, "What the heck are you thinking about?" she will immediately start this argument, saying "Well, I'm not going to buy another bag for four years." Now that's not going to be the truth...
...findings was that industrial policy should have been better coordinated and the money invested in a few promising centers, rather than being showered as if from a watering can across the economic landscape. But the fact remains that when the communist state collapsed, the urgent issue at hand was how to integrate 17 million East Germans into a suddenly reunified country, and quickly. Despite some lingering resentment in both east and west, that work is done. In a line policymakers today might take to heart, Zimmerman of the DIW says that the infusion of cash to the east "wasn...
...were the hundreds of U.S. school closures and the presidential press conferences about hand-washing much ado about not that much? Unfortunately not. As health officials pointed out repeatedly, we're still in the early days of the H1N1 outbreak, and influenza viruses are notoriously unpredictable. Right now the new disease seems to be no more dangerous than the seasonal flu (researchers who have examined the genetic code of the H1N1 virus say it appears to lack key mutations that made past pandemic-causing viruses so deadly), but H1N1 could return next winter in a more lethal form--just...
...Frank O'Donnell of Clean Air Watch had more sympathy for Waxman, who, he said, was "working with a pretty bad hand. The only way he was going get something through his committee was to move to the right and make an awful lot of concessions...