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...leaders say they want to boost Japan's nonindustrial economy by lowering taxes paid by local businesses, developing new environmental technologies and creating jobs in health care and agriculture. Toshihiro Ihori, an economics professor at Tokyo University, adds that offering incentives to attract skilled foreign labor and multinational companies could produce more investment and boost domestic economic activity, helping to revitalize moribund commercial sectors that for too long have been sheltered from competition...
Unlike Freeze, HerCampus will feature both national and local content, which will be written by carefully selected college-age interns across the nation...
...What are we doing wrong? European countries have been able to achieve faster speeds by forcing telephone companies to rent lines to local Internet service providers for use with broadband DSL. The Federal Communications Commission attempted to do the same during the middle of the decade to allow competition, but it had to back down from this practice after phone companies threatened to sue. Worse, the FCC and the courts allowed SBC to buy both AT&T and Bellsouth in 2005 and 2006, creating a huge monopoly that rivaled AT&T of the 1980s. Lack of competition...
...like downloading movies. A recent report from the World Bank Group found that a 10 percent increase in connection speeds is correlated with a 1.3 percent increase in economic growth. The faster the Internet becomes, the more purposes it can serve; high-speed Internet is the basis for many local IT businesses that generate jobs and exports. Expanding the high-speed Web to rural areas and increasing speeds in developed areas will also make long-distance learning easier and expand the possibilities of telemedicine...
...obviously they can’t stand that close, it’s obstruction. It was difficult.”With Mann saving four goals throughout the game, Harvard’s defense proved an obstacle for Long Beach State, and hopes to continue to provide a challenge to local rivals Boston College and Boston University next weekend. And now that the Crimson has had its first taste of net in over a week, Harvard hopes to be offensively sound as well.“We haven’t practiced for a week and a half at least...