Word: marketeers
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...decide to sell the manuscripts, there will be nothing to stop them. Unlike antiquities laws which protect old carvings, for example, Mali has no law barring people from taking manuscripts out of the country. As international interest in the works grows, so too could their value on the world market, according to some experts. In 1979, Zouber, the President's counselor, bought 25 Timbuktu manuscripts from the daughter of a former French diplomat who had been stationed in Mali and had taken them with him when he left; Zouber tracked her down in Cannes and paid about...
...country's leader in indoor marijuana cultivation. It is a potent distinction because most of the marijuana grown this way is cultured hydroponically - that is, mostly without soil and with a carefully calibrated cocktail of chemicals and lighting - to create some of the highest level of highs on the market...
...India is not a colony to be ruled or a market to be capitalized, but a country of its own, with unwritten stories of slumdog millionaires that outnumber America’s four-to-one. Why say that India lags a decade behind the U.S., when its course should be its own? History has already written the American path toward economic and cultural modernization. Now, let India have its turn...
...this is complicated, it's difficult. Without giving you a hard time, Karen, because I think you've been terrific in reporting this, the press gets bored with the details easily, and it very easily slips into a very conventional debate about government-run health care versus the free market, et cetera, which is not at all what the real debate is about, but that's a lot of times how it gets shaded or framed in the press - all of which feeds the public spheres, even though they know that the system we have isn't working very well...
...concerns that I had originally during the debates with John McCain about completely eliminating the exclusion. The majority of people still get health insurance from their employers. For them to suddenly just lose that and get some sort of tax credit and have to go out on the open market would be a radical change that I think would increase people's vulnerability as opposed to increasing their security...