Word: reals
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...governments, that's real cause for concern. It might not show up in the national accounts, but trust is vital for an economy to work. When we stash wages or savings with banks, we trust they'll be safe and accessible when we need them. When we squirrel money into a pension, we trust it'll pay back when we retire. In a paper published in 2006, academics from Italy, the Netherlands and Canada even found that trust levels between citizens of two countries has a significant effect on the investment decisions of venture capital firms, even after accounting...
...H1N1 seems to lack the killer instinct at the moment, flu viruses are unpredictable, and there's no guarantee that it couldn't change form. Flu season in the southern hemisphere is just beginning, and if the virus establishes itself in countries like Argentina or Australia, it could cause real damage. And there are still open mysteries, like why the bulk of the infections in the U.S. - and the confirmed deaths thus far in Mexico - have been found in people who are relatively young, which is unusual for the flu, or why this strain seems to be spreading...
...views are not controversial among the major parties and political elites in Israel. The Obama administration will make a crucial error in judgment if it thinks of the rise of Lieberman and his party, Yisrael Beiteinu, as a new development. Focusing on Lieberman distracts attention from the real issues to one disagreeable politician. Such logic wrongly suggests that, without Lieberman, peace between Palestinians and Israelis would be easier to achieve...
...their suspects, cleared all of those suspects, so at that time, it was the investigators' belief that the guy was either dead or in prison. I thought that was the end of it," says Kistner, "until Inglewood called the other day and said we've got some real good news for you." (See the top 25 crimes of the century...
...narrative. While NATO typically issues a brief statement within a day or so of an insurgent attack, Rahimullah Samandar, head of the Afghan Independent Journalists Association, points out that the Kabul government stays silent, even as Taliban spokesmen reach out to information-starved media outlets with detailed accounts in real-time. "The Taliban has been filling in the gaps," he says...