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...anxiety over APEC's economic future has rejuvenated an idea once dismissed as unwieldy and unrealistic: the knitting together of a free-trade zone, similar to the European Union, straddling the Asia-Pacific region. Proposed by APEC's Business Advisory Council, this zone would include most of Asia (but not India) and a sliver of Central and South America, as well as big non-Asian economies like the U.S., Russia and Canada. If all of APEC's member countries participated - a big if - its combined annual GDP would be $37 trillion, 21/2 times that of the E.U., the world...
...extremely concerned with making our budget cut process more transparent and more opinion-driven,” said Bowman. “I came up with the idea of the Idea Bank. If we don’t have a [UC] president that is the most knowledgeable on budget cuts, then student life will suffer and workers will suffer...
...Ninety-three percent of voters in Massachusetts don't even know when Election Day is, which is of course December 8," Jacobson said, referring to the date of the primary. "So we wanted to come up with some sort of idea to gain more attention and get the word out that we need more debates...
...Very serious,” said Robert G.B. Long, ’11, the presidential candidate on the ticket. “This is probably the most serious thing I’ve ever done. This is a serious, revolutionary idea...
...crisis with a market-based solution. To undercut sales of counterfeits and alternative treatments, the Global Fund initiative will spend more than $220 million to subsidize genuine, effective combination-therapy drugs, and in Cambodia, it will spend an additional $10 million to ensure good distribution around the country. The idea was first proposed in 2004 by a committee of the Institute of Medicine headed by Kenneth Arrow, a winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics. The idea is that if the market is relied on to root out fake pills and bad treatments, the real drugs will come...