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...obstacle. Talk to Mike Mitternight, president of Factory Service Agency, which installs commercial air-conditioning systems in suburban New Orleans, and you'll find out that one of his biggest problems is other businesses. Historically, he's gotten paid by contractors within 45 to 60 days. His suppliers, even major manufacturers, used to be amenable to waiting that long to get paid themselves...
...heartened to find that even as fierce partisans across the Internet rehashed his single comment again and again, major media outlets are hardly graced it with a single mention. They have bigger things to worry about than token politics—that pesky bank bailout, for instance, that McCain’s cavalier intervention and the political posturing of his House Republican friends may have put beyond rescue. They have better things to worry about...
...presidential campaigns. According to the Petrie-Flom center, Americans spend $2 trillion on health care annually, a cost that is expected to grow dramatically in the coming decades. “More than 15 percent of our GDP is spent on health care, so it is a problem with major impacts,” said Katherine E. Paras, a Petrie-Flom administrator who helped organize the debate...
Four Harvard professors—and one Pulitzer-winning reporter—addressed the financial meltdown at the Institute of Politics last night, in the third major panel at the University on the current economic situation. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...18th century, many of the framers of the fledgling United States-the first major modern democracy-also put stock in the idea. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were among those who considered term limits an important way to check individual power. In a 1787 letter to James Madison, Jefferson counted "the perpetual eligibility" of elected officials, and especially a chief executive, as one of two key elements of the proposed Constitution that he didn't like (the other being the absence of a Bill of Rights). But while the Articles of Confederation limited delegates to three-year terms...