Word: hubbardism
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...very exciting thing,” said biology professor Ruth Hubbard, Wald’s second wife and fellow researcher...
...sometimes vulgar) humor, Madden, 35, has kept the campaign from getting too rattled by Romney's occasional malapropisms and gaffes. The effortlessness with which he laughs off Romney's missteps (when Romney told Fox News that his favorite novel was a sci-fi tome by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Madden chided breathless reporters, "It's. A. Book.") is a tactic as much as it is a natural part of Madden's personality. "With humor," he says, "you can disarm your opponent and can put things in perspective...
...Chinese executives were in New York City for a week of business-school classes. Even before economist Glenn Hubbard--dean of Columbia Business School and former chief of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers--finished teaching on Monday morning, it was clear that his students had done their homework...
...Hubbard gave his mostly positive take on the state of the global economy, then asked for questions. Richard Feng, CEO of furniture maker Markor, went straight to issue No. 1 in U.S.-China economic relations: the ever louder demands from Capitol Hill that China let its currency rise as much as 40% against the dollar. That would, in theory at least, make Chinese products more expensive in the U.S. and U.S. products cheaper in China. Americans would buy less, the Chinese would buy more, thus reducing the huge trade imbalance between the countries-- $20 billion in May alone...
...Hubbard agreed that "there have been enormous benefits to the U.S. economy" from trade with China. But he wasn't buying the argument that the strong yen caused Japan's economic troubles in the 1990s--pinning the blame instead on "extremely poor" monetary policy and messed-up banks. And while admitting that "we don't really know the appropriate value" of the currency alternately and confusingly known as the yuan or renminbi (RMB), Hubbard rejected the idea that keeping it low helps the Chinese economy. "To the extent that there is an undervalued exchange rate, this is bad for China...