Word: matthewes
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...Jyoti Thottam. Reported by Perry Bacon Jr. with Kerry, Massimo Calabresi and Douglas Waller/Washington, Matthew Forney/Beijing, Ghulam Hasnain/ Islamabad, Donald Macintyre/Seoul, Tim McGirk/Kabul and Yuri Zarakhovich/ Moscow
...that we're losing in this discussion is, Is outsourcing bad for America? Is globalization good or bad for America?" Baumol, along with his fellow panelists on TIME's Board of Economists--RON HIRA of the Rochester Institute of Technology, CATHERINE MANN of the Institute for International Economics and MATTHEW SLAUGHTER of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth--proceeded to delve into that hotly contested question. Under prodding from TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM, the panel wrestled with issues of policy, politics and economic philosophy, sometimes clashing sharply. But in the end they agreed on a sobering call to action...
...MATTHEW SLAUGHTER: There is something lost in the discussion about trying to identify the number of jobs lost to outsourcing. Counting jobs in these snapshots misses the point. Globalization for the U.S. economy continues to create very large gains, but those gains don't accrue to every single worker. There's too much focus [on] policy solutions for those directly impacted. Given the fluidity in the labor market, these pressures are really spread economywide...
...still in effect, but the University is willing to allow House Committees to pay an outside distributor to bring in beer trucks, which are essentially filled with kegs,” Student Affairs Committee Chair Matthew J. Glazer ’06 said. “This is currently [only] for House Committees,” he added...
...Starbucks has not taken a system-wide price increase on beverages since August 2000,” wrote Starbucks spokesman Matthew Morris in an e-mail. “Based on increased costs throughout the business, and not any one specific cost, Starbucks raised beverage prices by an average of 11 cents in Company-operated stores in North America...