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...Hoover. Hoover, the man whose infamous attempt to balance the budget in the face of skyrocketing unemployment and a deepening recession pushed the American economy over the edge into the Great Depression, is hardly a good example for our new president. Obama’s plans will not necessarily launch our economy into a depression. He is attempting to slash the deficit, not eliminate it, and there are certainly wasteful government expenditures worth cutting. However, it is important that Obama’s message to the American people is an unwavering pledge to end the economic plunge at all costs...
...Gallo noted. “Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.”Aptow, not usually known for creating leading female roles, kept his loyalty to those around him at the launch of his career, and has given Carla some of his more memorable female characters (for example, the girl who bleeds on Jonah Hill in “Superbad”). Despite the potential embarrassment that might come with such roles, Gallo has enjoyed greater visibility from these projects...
...There are hundreds of these and similar land-based long-range missiles ready to launch at a moment's notice. Only the original nuclear club countries have them - America, Russia, China, Britain and France. Those who justify the continued existence of these giant arsenals argue that the stability provided by such "deterrents" far outweigh the risk. The launch of one or all of these missiles - whether by design or by accident - would be a highly improbable event. (See pictures of Hiroshima...
...submarine patrols in 2008 than it has in a decade. The Russian subs are joined in the word's oceans by nuclear-armed vessels from France, Britain, and China. Under the plains of the American West, and in similar silos in Russia, Air Force missile operators keep constant vigil, launch keys at the ready. Nuclear missiles have no self-destruct button; once launched, they cannot be called back. Twenty years after the end of the cold war, humanity still lives within 30 minutes of its own destruction. The price we pay for maintaining nuclear weapons is the gamble that...
...bank or post office it helps to have sharp elbows and a sense of entitlement. Getting on a bus or train can be more like packing down in a rugby scrum. But when those big moments in life arrive - the next step in your career, a business idea to launch, moving out of your parent's home - Italy is afflicted by a troubling surplus of patience...