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...midst of a sharp decline in financial markets that has sent shockwaves across the globe, Bernanke, a former Winthrop House resident, has earned both praise and ire for his active role in trying to alleviate what he has recently acknowledged might be a recession...
...produce artificially low prices at the grocery store, the funds paying for this difference come straight out of consumers’ wallets in the form of tax dollars. Ultimately the costs outweigh the benefits. American farm subsidies are no exception, and have the added drawback of incurring the ire of foreign farmers who find themselves undersold by government-backed U.S. agriculture. This consistently creates a roadblock in international trade negations, as evidenced by the near failure of the trade liberalization talks in Doha over the issue of protectionist agricultural policies. By impeding the progress of international trade, the subsidy programs...
...George W. Bush. Since Bush's election just over seven years ago, and especially since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, global attitudes to the U.S. have worsened, in some places considerably. Before the 2004 presidential election, the accepted wisdom goes, the rest of the world focused most of its ire on Bush himself, figuring that he had somehow lucked into the presidency after a dodgy Supreme Court decision. But after 2004, that excuse no longer worked and there is some evidence to suggest that anti-Bushism turned into a broader anti-Americanism. So for many non-Americans this year...
...blog, which launched during finals period, is drawing ire in some student circles and laughs in others, as Harvard becomes yet another campus roiled by online innuendo in recent months...
...changing nature of HMI’s activities didn’t draw the ire of Mass. Hall because HMI had a friend in high places during its banner years...