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...decisions happen faster, I think putting the blame on computers when they've been such a driver of productivity is a mistake. Taking junk mortgages and calling them triple A, that's not a physicist's or a computer scientist's decision, that's somebody who is trying to pitch something...
Meanwhile, developers like Ahmed keep plugging away. He knows the easy sales may be over. "People are more educated and calculated," says Ahmed. "Now they are asking for a more detailed sales pitch. They want to know about the developer's track record." That's no bad thing. Prudence may be the key to preserving Dubai's appeal in uncertain times...
...minutes before polls opened at 6:30 a.m., it was still pitch dark along Cleveland's streets and difficult to see the campaign signs or even the "Vote Here" ones. But those who always vote at St. Mary's Romanian Orthodox Church on Cleveland's far west side knew exactly where to go. By 6:20 a.m. the parking lot was filling up quickly and an almost all-white crowd of 30-some voters had formed. All across Cleveland, polls opened on time and short lines formed immediately...
...Resistance to the nationalization of pensions is strong, but it may not rise to the fever pitch of this year's running battle between the nation's farmers and Fernández over a hefty tax hike on soy exports. A four-month farm strike ended in a humiliating defeat for Fernández when her initiative was killed by a deciding vote cast in Congress by her own Vice President, Julio Cobos, whose approval rating shot up to 67% in opinion surveys as a result...
...President David Kosslyn ’11 explained the concept behind the competition as “having your boss’s boss’s boss in the elevator with you and that’s all the time you have to pitch an idea...