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...even more frustrating if that business involves the public sector and government employees. The working day is extremely short - just four hours in some agencies - and if you are dealing with a male employee then he is most likely to be in a snappish, intolerant mood brought on by lack of tea, cigarettes and sleep. If she is a woman then most probably she will be totally distracted by how she will manage to brave the traffic to pick up her children from school and have the warm iftar meal ready by 6 p.m., when the daily fast ends...
...there's a risk that the Clinton Initiative and similar efforts could give way to a kind of private-sector triumphalism, a belief that it doesn't matter if Washington remains irrelevant on climate change. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bill Clinton and Wal-Mart can't fix global warming on their own, and as impressive as recent corporate initiatives on energy have been, they don't add up to the transformative changes needed to fully wean the world - not just the U.S. - off fossil fuels. "We need private sector leadership, and it's great that Clinton...
...looking at, the tail end of Bremer's stay, was how shock therapy had backfired in Iraq - and by shock therapy I'm referring to the economic policies that were really seen by many Iraqis as a continuation of the war, like the huge layoffs in the public sector, the dismantling of the army, the opening up of the country to unrestricted free trade. It was an extraordinarily unfair way for Iraqis to enter the free market. And it was really seen as a kind of a pillage...
...Where once they amassed fortunes from the bounty of the country's traditional agricultural sector, many of the finer families now live off of what's left of former fortunes, or on remittances sent from relatives in the United States. The younger generation, armed with college degrees from Texas A&M and Louisiana State University, have migrated to Managua to parlay their family names into middle-management or public-relations jobs, while the elders remain behind in their rocking chairs...
...said he supported the current administration’s “Every American Insured” program, which seeks to ensure that the government provides insurance for the elderly and disabled, leaving the rest to the private sector...