Word: perring
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...unresolved issues. Longer term, Hummer is hoping to replace its gas guzzlers with new models that use lighter-weight materials and advanced power trains, and maybe even hybrid vehicles. The plan is to continue building Hummers in the U.S., not in China where the prevailing wages, $12 to $25 per day, are significantly lower...
...Approximately 206 million Chinese children attend primary and secondary schools. Basic literacy is almost universal in China today, while it was roughly 20% in 1949. Still, China remains a poor country by global standards: some 207 million people still live below World Bank poverty levels on less than $1.25 per...
...every psychologist would agree that Internet or video-game dependency is a legitimately diagnosable problem. Some suggest that pathological game-playing or Internet surfing is not an addiction per se, but a symptom of a deeper issue, such as depression or anxiety. But Cash believes the virtual world can be no less addicting than other activities, such as gambling. She describes her first patient who exhibited signs of compulsion: He had come to her in a moment of crisis 15 years ago - having discovered a text-only role-playing computer game that was conceptually similar to Dungeons and Dragons...
...called the TARP program part of a financial coup d'etat. But if we get our money back, with interest, and the banking system reverts to doing what it should do, haven't the citizens won? If you give me $700 billion per year, hey I have some good ideas. I can make some money with that, for me and for you. I'm going to have my best quarter if you gave me that money. I wonder how many people in the inner cities would love a little bailout money to get out the hole they...
...this crisis. In the past four years we have had a high rate of economic growth and even if there was inflation, at the end of the day the trend demonstrated that the purchasing power of people from different groups of society was actually stronger and the national per capita income actually went up. Not to forget that in the past four years, Iran was one of the more stable countries in the world both politically and economically. Unlike some countries like the United States itself and some European countries, unemployment rates in Iran are actually decreasing. Having said that...