Word: nationes
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...afford to wait. The longer someone is unemployed, the harder it is to get back to work, a fact as true for the nation as it is for you and me. As the Peterson Institute's Jacob Kirkegaard explains, "It is entirely possible that what started as a cyclical rise in unemployment could end up as an entrenched problem." Past crises have illustrated that lesson: the longer you wait, the harder it is to contain. This is as true for joblessness as it was for subprime mortgages, al-Qaeda and computer viruses...
Options are not like other insurance policies - say health insurance. Stocks tend to move together, whereas one person's health tends to vary independent of the nation's health. Risk to health-insurance companies decreases as the number of policies increases; risk compounds for options writers as their volume increases. Those writing put options have secured small gains for now, but they will suffer multiplied losses across the board should the market tank...
Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” the noted class that drew 872 students last fall, debuts as a 12-part series on public television stations across the nation later this month...
...nation's capital is naive enough to think that President Barack Obama's address before Congress Wednesday evening, Sept. 9, was somehow, in one fell swoop, going to overcome all the opposition to health-care reform, the power of his rhetoric winning over skeptics like a latter-day Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But after the President's impassioned, 47-minute speech drew thunderous applause and improved poll ratings, even some of the most jaded Democrats may have allowed themselves to think that maybe Obama's oratory really was a "game changer," as Senate majority leader Harry Reid...
...some degree, the meeting demonstrated the delicate balance Obama is trying to strike after speaking to the nation. On the one hand, the President is determined to create momentum for an eventual compromise in the Senate. On the other hand, he does not want to set expectations too high. Even before the speech was delivered, some Obama aides were cautioning that there was still much work ahead. "We certainly want to see Congress move," said a senior adviser before adding, "I don't think all of it is going to get done tomorrow." (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...