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...past and what she would miss in the future. I’ve thought about my father—a man who has dedicated his life to his children’s well-being, regardless of the long hours of thankless toil it required. I still think about the pain he goes through having lost the person he had shared the last 35 years of his life with. I know neither my mother or father thought when they came to the United States from India that life would be easy. Still, I doubt they imagined that it would be quite...
...Another factor holding back structural reform is the acknowledgement from all parties that it would almost certainly bring about lots of short-term pain, including numerous bankruptcies and high unemployment. "There's no doubt that the structure needs to be changed," says former Finance Vice Minister Sakakibara, "but people are afraid of the costs." Many Japanese wince just discussing joblessness; they speak about acquaintances who have been fired as if they'd been afflicted with a horrible disease. Many Japanese commentators claim that high unemployment is unacceptable because the nation does not have a well-developed social-welfare system...
...absorb pain today when you can put it off until tomorrow? Walk the streets of Tokyo and there is no sense of urgency, no indication that the country has a credit rating equal to Botswana's. Part of Japan's quiet confidence comes, no doubt, from the $6 trillion in personal savings its citizens have amassed, thanks to its exceptionally high 13% household-savings rate. That totes out to $150,000 per capita, or nearly two and a half years' worth of the average worker's income per household?making it a massive, self-funded social safety net, insulating...
...study measured the benefits of a ban by considering medical costs, property damage and estimates of what people would be willing to pay to avoid pain, suffering and death...
...Commodores still outscored the Crimson threefold in the first 12 minutes, tallying 27 points to Harvard’s nine. Vanderbilt continued this trend and the Crimson was left with very little time to avoid the pain of a 52-point pickup, as the Commodores held its biggest lead at 84-32 lead with 2:44 remaining...