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...sectors?construction, retailing, agriculture, health care and financial services, among others?have languished. Shielded from competition by a tangle of government subsidies, tariffs and protectionist policies, the nation's domestic manufacturers and services have hardly changed?let alone improved?for decades. What may have once been an enlightened government plank to promote universal employment back when Japan really was a developing country is now backfiring massively. The high prices and poor consumer satisfaction that Japanese citizens encounter every day has spurred a never-ending cycle of depressed demand and low growth. "The quality of life in Japan is eroding...
...electorate. Over thirty House of Representatives Democrats representing seventeen different states consistently vote against abortion. On any given life issue, as many as 70 House Democrats will vote against abortion. According to a June 2002 Gallup poll, only 25 percent of Americans support the Democratic Party’s plank that abortion should be available on demand. The Senate’s refusal to bring the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act for a vote before the election brought opponents of abortion from both parties to the polls in droves. When most Democratic candidates support abortion, however, you can easily guess...
...have been told nothing new in behind-closed-doors briefings and remain unconvinced of the imminent danger. NATO members and Arab allies have been openly skeptical of the case for going to war; Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has made rejection of any U.S. "adventure" in Iraq a central plank of his reelection campaign. And South African elder statesman Nelson Mandela this week branded Washington's Iraq policy a "threat to world peace...
...other words, the violence that began in February and went on until April isn't fading into history. It's a plank in an electoral platform?an ominous sign of how vulnerable Gujarat's Muslims have become. "The system is just not functioning for the Muslims in Gujarat," complains Ahmadabad lawyer Mukul Sinha, a Hindu working to promote secularism in the state...
Tolman’s plan for the the state is unique in specifically addressing the needs of rural western Mass., a plank spokesperson Karen G. Blackburn says is a reflection on his undergraduate years at Amherst...