Word: publication
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...aren't you really a model capitalist? You raise money. You hire people. You create a product and sell it to the public, bearing the risk and gaining the rewards that goes along with it. Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. My last movie, I gave it away for free on the Internet: Slacker Uprising. If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid...
...reaction among the Swiss public to Gaddafi's idea of splitting up the country has been a mix of outrage and incredulity. "Even though Gaddafi is a leader of a country and the current head of the African Union, he loses credibility when he comes up with outrageous comments like that," says Daniel Warner, a political scientist at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Others see irony in Gaddafi's comments. "It's a paradox that Gaddafi wants to dismantle Switzerland because, as he claims, it is not a homogenous country, while Libya is divided by a desert...
...lately, as he paces through his palace garden, with his bodyguards always in his shadow, he must have realized the extent to which the diplomatic community and his own people have forsaken him over the election debacle. As he tries to mend ties with the American public through a barrage of TV interviews, a more chastened, statesmanlike Karzai has emerged. It won't take long to discover whether this transformation is genuine or another piece of theater from the dapper Afghan President. For Obama, it may be worth the wait to find...
...costs in Rio close to $2 billion; the costs of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, according to Chinese organizers, totaled roughly $2.5 billion.) Some commentators said that was indicative of corruption, but it also suggests serious deficiencies in organization and planning. "Brazil is still learning how to do continuous public policy," Alencar said. "Public works are emergency, localized, specific. There is no strategic planning involved. That was what happened with...
...owned by the government until it was privatized in 1987, to fail. The airline has already been bailed out three times since 2001, and was guaranteed 80% of a 100 billion yen emergency loan by the previous administration. On Thursday, Japan's new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, said "public support may become necessary" for JAL and that he wants to finalize restructuring plans for the company "as soon as possible," on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. Government officials "definitely don't want Japan's flagship carrier to file for Japan's equivalent of Chapter 11," says...