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...position to give practical outlet to a wide range of passionate convictions about how to improve the world. After listening to a probation official on the radio, he decided in 1976 to put his $14,800 Navy severance pay toward helping down-and-out young people. From that modest start his Prince's Trust has become the country's largest foundation helping youth in need; it's given money and advice to more than 60,000 young people to help them start their own businesses. As a kind of charitable entrepreneur, Charles runs 15 other foundations...
...economy and their policy implications. The speech echoed some familiar warnings by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, particularly the prediction that the housing bubble is unsustainable, and while it's unlikely to burst, it will likely deflate slowly, bringing returns on property investments gradually more into line with the more modest gains yielded by other assets...
...attempt to wrest control of grain sales from private traders is widely seen as an attempt to reassert political control. One of the few slivers of freedom granted in recent years?the right to trade produce and household goods in the officially sanctioned farmers' markets?has already engendered a modest change in mindset. But there have been indicators of greater repression since last year, when the government outlawed cell phones for the general public shortly after setting up a national network. This year, officials at state-run trading companies were ordered to stop sending e-mails to China...
...Government: they would receive a guaranteed pension; they would have company-paid health insurance until they qualified for Medicare; they would receive company-paid supplemental medical insurance after turning 65; they would receive a fixed death benefit in the event of a fatal accident; and they would have a modest life-insurance policy...
...could buy an expensive fly rod--new technology. Or you could decide that you have already caught most of the fish in the pond. Although increased oil prices (which ought to spur investment in oil production) and new technology help, they can't work magic. Recent discoveries are modest at best. The oil sands in Canada and Venezuela are extensive, but the Canadian operations to convert the deposits into transportable oil consume large amounts of natural gas, which is in short supply...