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...going to be different ideas and disagreements about how to achieve this goal. And I welcome all ideas. We've got to have a good debate," he declared. "What I will not welcome, what I will not accept, is endless delay or a denial that reform needs to happen." As Obama's comments suggested, he is leaving it to the lawmakers, the lobbyists and the interest groups back in Washington to work out the gritty details of how to "fix what's broken" and "build on what works." His job, as he sees it, is to "make the case," said...
...stock back into circulation. "There is a lot of interest from the future stakeholders ... to start the process of selling down the shares. All agree that it's important to make General Motors a publicly traded company," says Ray Young, GM's chief financial officer. The earliest it would happen, Young projects, is around the first or second quarter of 2010. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...plan doesn't call for narrowing major traffic arteries - a futile endeavor that Tyler likens to "unfrying an egg" - but it doesn't call for widening them either. Creating bike lanes and crosswalks will help make the area less inhospitable to nondrivers. But what happens if Tysons doesn't bulk up enough to wipe out the sprawl? That won't happen, says Sharon Bulova, chairwoman of the Fairfax County board of supervisors. Enough landowners have already detailed their visions and are simply waiting for the official go-ahead in October to start submitting rezoning applications. And if the economy slows...
...back in line with where they've been historically, Americans would have to get rid of some $3 trillion to $5 trillion in debt over the next few years. (Read "Lidia Bastianich Saves Our Dough.") Lansing and San Francisco Fed colleague Reuven Glick ran a simulation of what would happen if U.S. consumers followed a path similar to that of Japanese businesses in the 1990s. That was another episode of a great debt dump following a stock-and-real-estate bubble - it's one of the examples economists often turn to in trying to understand what's going...
...before that can happen, he warns, more studies need to be done on how well metoclopramide actually controls nausea. At the moment, the drug, which calms digestive activity by slowing the contraction of intestinal muscles, is approved by the FDA only for the treatment of heartburn and other intestinal disorders. The drug's mechanism is believed to combat nausea by relieving the spasms that prompt queasiness. "What happens when people vomit or feel nauseous is that everything is stopped up," says Koren. "Metoclopramide helps move things forward and does not cause sedation like antihistamines...