Word: nevertheless
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...President even added a little Bushism to his mea culpa, one more for the road. "We were trying to say something differently, but nevertheless it conveyed a different message," Bush said--counting, as always, on his inflection, brow-wrinkling and calisthenic widening and narrowing of the eyes to get across his meaning. Maybe they should engrave that one over the doors of the future Bush Library. Love him or hate him, Bush has undeniably been a President who tried doing things differently, but nevertheless got different results. He is the free-market apostle who wound up ordering massive government intervention...
Despite universal concern over the state of the global economy, few attendees agreed on what should be done to fix it. "It's typical that if you have five economists in the room, you'll get six different opinions," Bauman says, after the show. Nevertheless, the prevailing view by the end of the conference is that things are unlikely to get any better without some sort of government intervention. "Even the hard-core free-market thinkers are reconsidering their stance nowadays," he notes. That's a sobering thought. Which could be why economists need a laugh right...
...person in the world actually will be a black man. Although President Barack Obama is one of the greatest public speakers now practicing that art, he probably couldn't get hired as the anonymous voice-over spokesman for a brand of cereal because he doesn't sound black enough. Nevertheless, he is a beneficiary of this development. When God turned into an African American, it became less unthinkable that the President might be African American as well...
...grace period to make adjustments. Books are in no rush to move online; Amazon is currently the only big e-book publisher. It is tedious to manually scan hundreds of pages, and the new generation of consumers often has homework, finals, or primal screams to attend to. Nevertheless, as the demand for e-books grows, bookstores should watch their backs—someday, you may have to look for your course packs online. You might not even have to wait for someday: students deterred by the price of the $60 Ec 1010a workbook can already download a free copy...
Barack Obama promised during his election campaign that he would pursue a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Day One of his presidency. The Gaza crisis has now turned that interest into an urgent requirement while making progress even more difficult. Nevertheless, in this crisis, as in the many other challenges the new President will face, there may also be an opportunity, which he can turn to his advantage...