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...there are already doubts about whether a 10-year bureaucratic plan can really turn the E.U. economy around. "These strategies are full of beautiful but nebulous words," says Jacques Pelkmans, a senior research fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a Brussels-based think tank. "We shouldn't expect Chinese growth rates, and we should not raise hopes we cannot meet...
...decade ago with the aim of transforming Europe into "the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy" by 2010. But the bloc fell far short of its goal of overtaking the U.S. and Japan, and even failed to meet its self-imposed economic targets. For example, that plan also called for E.U. research and development spending to increase to 3% of GDP, but only Sweden and Finland currently meet that threshold. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...life options should never be seen as giving up. "Caregivers must create opportunities for parents to discuss their hopes but also their worries and fears about losing a child," she says. "For all involved, the healthiest long-term path is, Let's hope for the best but plan for the worst...
Murray, who hopes to host four of these meetings next academic year, addressed more than 100 students and faculty members as she outlined a 10-year plan to hire 50 new faculty members in order to reach a target of 100 Full Time Equivalent faculty...
Holdups in the Senate have made it unlikely that any significant banking legislation will pass, but that is a moot point, Obama’s plan to curb risky investing by commercial banks is nothing more than a cynical attempt to gain populist support at a time when his domestic agenda is flagging. But if the failure of the banking bill presents Obama with an opportunity to initiate a new phase of his presidency, he needs to abandon more than just his financial policy: the entire populist strategy that it represented has to go as well...