Word: happening
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...believe we will look back on the financial innovations of the last several decades with regret? -Francis Murray, Washington They almost brought our country down. The only guy who really called this right was Karl Marx. Marx understood what would happen if you let the market run amok. Of course, it was done by right-wing Republicans. They brought our nation to its knees, and we're not going to end up being a great power because of what happened...
...comparative good news becomes a lot less good if you happen to live on either coast of the U.S. The complicated workings of planetary physics would cause seas to rise unevenly, and the Atlantic and Pacific shorelines of North America would be harder hit by an Antarctic thaw than perhaps any other place in the world...
...redistribution of mass would still cause the planet's gravity field to change slightly, which, in turn, would change the vector of its rotation. Think of the way water sloshes in a bucket, varying by how you swing or carry it. On a vast scale, that's what would happen if the WAIS collapsed, and the direction of the sloshing would hit the U.S. especially hard. Other areas that would take a particularly bad beating would be the coastlines bordering the southern Indian Ocean...
Smith declined to offer any specifics about what would happen to staffers now working in the closing cafes, saying only that the administration has not yet reached the point at which they can make concrete decisions about future layoffs...
...It’s inevitable, from the looks of it, that a certain amount of that is going to happen,” Thomas said. “One just has to try and limit it so that it doesn’t lead to the deterioration of the [educational] mission...