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...much of what happened and much of what was said as the stock market reclaimed milestone after milestone was better than most of the news over the last three or four months. But, the reaction of the stock market was that the glass had become half full in a matter of a few hours. The economic pump does not work that fast...
...When growing tobacco started to become less profitable for farmers, they rotated some portion of their land to growing corn. Between feed and the ethanol industry they did well. As a matter of fact, the ethanol industry had a supplier and that allowed the alternative energy movement to grow into an industry. Alternative use of assets is central to a number of industries that need to be revitalized. The car business has a chance to use its strengths to gain back some of its vitality permanently if it can make this transition...
...younger group,” she says. “I think it’s really fascinating to see what happens when you have college students playing all the characters, because then it’s just this messed up world where it doesn’t matter if you’re an adult or you’re 18 years old. You’re thinking about sex, you’re thinking about your life, and you’re thinking about how we’re all dying.”Because it displays...
...politics at Columbia University, who has studied and written about Japan for many years, recognizes that the DPJ wants to strengthen the safety net, but wonders if it has the determination to launch the sort of stimulus package that Barack Obama got through the U.S. Congress in a matter of weeks. Ozawa can come across as all politics, "his own Karl Rove," as Curtis puts it, rather than one who thinks through policies carefully...
...Bush nimbly ducked the leather projectiles and brushed off the matter. "So what if a guy threw his shoe at me?" he said at the time. But Prime Minister al-Maliki was not as blasé, and many Iraqis sympathetic to al-Zaidi, including his family, laid Thursday's conviction squarely at the Prime Minister's feet. "This is a political court. Muntazer is being treated like a prisoner of war. He is not a normal prisoner," the correspondent's brother Odai told reporters outside the courtroom. "This decision has been taken by the Prime Minister's office...