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...nation???s states and cities are awaiting an infusion of $1.5 billion from President Obama?s stimulus package devoted to homelessness prevention programs. Those programs will provide short-term rental and mortgage assistance, as well as security deposits and utility bills. A decade ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development spent barely $1 billion on all of its homeless programs each year...
...Sociologists say Ireland's linguistic renaissance and the nation???s spike in immigration are both triggered in part by the 'Celtic Tiger' - the growth phenomenon that has seen the Irish economy mushroom by over 150% since 1995. Years of EU infrastructural and educational support and a young and cheap labor force made Ireland a fertile ground for foreign investment in the domestic IT sector, among other industries, and the result has seen the average annual family income double to $93,000 in the past 10 years. Nic Ghiolla Phádraig says this new prosperity brought a sense of pride...
General David Jones, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fears that the Soviets might use a single multimegaton airburst over the U.S. to strike the entire nation???and its defense nerve centers?deaf, dumb and blind. Insulating the American command-and-control network against EMP, to preclude the possibility that the U.S. might be unable to fire a single shot, is one of the many
...what does the nation???and history?profit from this uniquely modern electronic means of eliciting a personal accounting from a discredited President? Certainly, after viewing the series, millions will be forcefully reminded of the high personal price Nixon has paid. Yet he is destined to fail in these interviews to persuade any but his partisan followers that his Watergate lies and, yes, crimes, were the result of mere failures of judgment. If these same televised questions and answers could somehow have been transformed into a court of law, any reasonable jury would almost certainly have found Nixon guilty of participating...
Indeed, Carter's whole energy plan is designed as a way of reaching that future age of new energy sources without setting, nation against nation???and regions within the U.S. against each other. Whatever the uncertainties along the path Carter is blazing, not to set out at all would be the least rational of all alternatives...