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...Still, further delay was increasingly difficult to justify. With the country's economy slowing, an upgrade of cellular networks is a way to stimulate growth. "These are exactly the kind of shovel-ready projects that [China] can start work on today, where the money you spend has an immediate impact on jobs," says the executive. Beijing officials have said they expect spending to upgrade networks will add between 0.5 and 1 percentage point to the country's GDP growth...
...case where greater African unity could have a major impact is the failed state of Somalia, where a vicious internecine conflict has raged since the collapse of central government in 1991. Somalia has been a center of lawlessness and disorder for some years now, and failed military intervention by the United States and Ethiopia in 1993 and 2006 demonstrates that only a much stronger, multilateral African group can have any hope of success...
...Hayward said. There was also great excitement surrounding the Harvard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was reactivated by students from across the University on Wednesday night. Jarell L. Lee ’10 emphasized the enormous impact that the Harvard NAACP could have on the larger Boston and Cambridge areas. “We have made progress, but our communities are still plagued by dilapidated schools with teachers who do not care, jobs that do not pay enough and a host of other issues,” Lee said. “There...
...relatively strong fundraising figures may not yet reflect the full impact of the economic downturn—there is often a significant lag between economic trends and changes in giving...
...killings did have a measurable, positive impact, however: a revolution in product safety standards. In the wake of the Tylenol poisonings, pharmaceutical and food industries dramatically improved their packaging, instituting tamperproof seals and indicators and increasing security controls during the manufacturing process. The result has been a dramatic reduction in the number of copycat incidents - although it may be of little solace to the families of the seven killed in Chicago. But now, as the FBI brings modern technology to bear on a case long gone cold, perhaps they can hope again for something else tangible: at long last, some...