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...push back has been vigorous, and not just from the usual business groups. States are reflectively resisting federal intrusion, besides being concerned about getting saddled with an unfunded mandate. Opponents also contend that shady business practices will just move offshore and put the tax dollars in another country's coffers...
...think, "First I must launch Microsoft Word, my tool, and then create a new document." If you wanted to embed some piece of information that Microsoft Word wasn't optimized for, you had to launch another application, create and modify a new element there, and then move back to your original application environment, where you could deposit the alien data object. A number of proposed interfaces - most famously, Apple's failed OpenDoc initiative, shut down shortly after the company acquired NeXT - promised to reverse the priorities: our desktops would prioritize the tasks over the tools, the documents over the applications...
...just completed an 80-year history of Wall Street. What did you learn? There is now about $140 trillion in market capitalization in the word's financial markets looking for investments. That money can now move around very easily. But even if a relatively small portion of that money goes after something - say, mortgages - it can quickly cause a bubble and a crisis. So all this good work we have done in the past few years to make our capital markets more efficient and open has also made them very hazardous, and we haven't done anything yet to address...
...party-line votes that, I'm just going to be honest, were disappointing," Obama said. "I'm ready and eager to work with anyone who is willing to proceed in a spirit of goodwill. But understand, if we can't break free from partisan gridlock, if we can't move past a politics of no, if resistance supplants constructive debate, I still have to meet my responsibilities as President...
...Ahmadinejad become enough of a liability for Khamenei and his allies to move against him? The President faces a difficult term ahead, even without the unresolved question of his legitimacy. Critics of his government say it squandered billions during his first term on expensive social programs intended to buy political support. Now faced with increasing sanctions and lower oil revenues, the government is about to launch a new program to wean the economy from unsustainable subsidies, especially on energy - a move that is almost certainly going to be unpopular...