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...same time, they retain control of certain key industries, like oil or automaking, use state support to grow these industries, and then unleash state-backed firms into the global marketplace. Mostly authoritarian regimes, the state capitalists also keep a lid on politics by using growth to co-opt their middle classes...
...yore, when college kids spent evenings analyzing poetry in professors' quarters. Research indicates that students are more likely to be satisfied with school and become campus leaders if they spend time with faculty. Which is why the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville created Core Connections, which lets mostly freshmen opt to live in two dorms where attendance at faculty-planned events is required. The University of Maine now makes all frosh live together in dorms with new support networks. Ditto for Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where first-years are also encouraged to go on hikes with the profs...
...going to have to rebalance their portfolios to remain properly diversified and in line with their goals. "You can have an extremely negative view of the economy and use that to say, 'I am not going to go anywhere close to consumer discretionary stocks,'" says McManus. He'd opt for consumer staples instead, as well as health care, utilities and perhaps some beaten-down market sectors such as energy...
...crisis has over the past few days entered into a phase that makes it intolerable to opt for procrastination and a go-it-alone approach," Sarkozy said. "This plan treats all aspects of the financial crisis." That's not to say further treatment won't be necessary...
...this green dream is hardly problem-free or environmentally perfect. First, if oil prices continue dropping, perhaps to last year's $60-per-bbl. mark, drivers may opt to keep their old cars, especially if the recession in the U.S. and Europe deepens and car loans get even harder to obtain. In debt and facing slumping sales, the auto industry is also competing against flush high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, which are also racing to perfect a lithion-ion car battery. What's more, the billions that the auto companies are spending in research could be squeezed during...