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...been able to maintain a social welfare system, and see that as part and parcel of being competitive. That is the Nordic countries, or the Scandinavian countries, where they have a very important welfare system, but they're at the top, most competitive countries in the world. I often like to say that the sense of welfare and security that a person needs, sometimes also helps in making that person more innovative, more risk taking, more entrepreneurial. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...that power. I imagine people even in your own party. Are you willing to take those people on? Are you willing to root out corruption within your own party? I said the first thing we have to do is change ourselves. We have to be the example, if you like, and lead by example in many ways. And this is what I did when I took on the party, took the leadership of the party. I said okay, the first thing we have to do is change. As a matter of fact, one of our slogans is "We're changing...
...overconfident [March 22]. In the first entry, "prophets of doom" are seen as missing the reality of American "nimbleness and adaptability." Yet your story misses the reality that America is in a governance gridlock, which raises serious questions about the nation's ability to cope with current crises like debt, unemployment, the terrorist threat and a diminished competitive position globally. William Gruber Lexington, Mass...
...Lind sounds like the patent-office guy who wanted to close up shop because he thought everything that was going to be invented had been invented. Hasn't he ever heard of nanotechnology? The cool phones he mentions are only one product of this exciting, growing field of study. Carl Paulson Lewiston, Idaho...
...have dubbed this generation the junior high generation. They love vampires, zombies, cartoons. They call home many times a day. Reading, even e-mail, is too demanding; they text people in the next room. Doesn't that sound like a 12-year-old to you? David Campbell Monroeville...