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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seems counterintuitive to suddenly, during a recession, charge a premium for a magazine that others get for nothing - without putting, say, a Treasury bill in each newsstand copy. Not to mention pulling such a move while competing with all the financial advice that's sitting there gratis on the Internet. But the publishers don't see it that way. "Our audience is of very high-net-worth individuals," says Worth publisher Patrick Williams. "Not someone like me who's worried about their 401(k)." (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...Noticeably absent from this explanation of the recession is any mention of Bush’s tax policy, health-care plans, climate-change proposals, education programs, or foreign policy. Reading The Crimson, however, you’d think the president’s policies broke the economy by themselves. Bush-hating revisionists use the unpopularity of our 43rd president to discredit conservative policies in general. But Bush’s failure to regulate financial and housing markets should not be confused with his success in economic growth, trade, education, and health care...
...have seen them frolicking about past the 9 o’clock hour), when all decent individuals have long since retired for the evening. They speak in vulgarities, spewing phrases like “gosh darn it” and “shucks,” not to mention their fixation on playing table tennis in the wee hours of the morning. Do they not realize that sportsmanship should take place only in daylight...
...recession - while revenues were down quarter over quarter, they grew 6% year over year thanks to continued strong query growth. These results underline both the resilience of our business model and the ongoing potential of the web as users and advertisers shift online." What he did not bother to mention is that no business model is any good at all without customers. Google has millions of clients spending money on its search advertising and its financial results are a signal that companies both large and small are not so hard up that they have completely abandoned marketing. Google's advantage...
...first part of your book focuses on walrus hunting in Alaska. You mention that it's hard to make good hunting laws because of the difficulty in knowing what level of hunting is sustainable. Why is that...