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...That realization is causing a rapid shift in economic policies by governments that are increasingly concerned about maintaining growth. A few months ago, the biggest threat appeared to be inflation - running at double-digit rates in countries including Indonesia, India and Vietnam - which led Asian central bankers to hike interest rates, hoping to cool off overheating economies and keep a lid on rising costs. But inflation worries have eased with recent sharp declines in the prices of oil and other commodities. Now policymakers are opening the money taps again. In September China's central bank lowered its key interest rate...
...past decade, Colorado has become Democrats' best shot at a boothold in the once reliably Republican Mountain West. Democrats now control the governorship and both houses in the state legislature and have a good chance of picking up a second Democratic seat in the U.S. Senate next month. The shift came about largely because the state GOP continued to nominate right-wing candidates, while Democrats recruited centrist politicians who often combined prosecutorial backgrounds with aw-shucks demeanors. And it is because neither McCain nor Obama fits either mold that the state is even close this year...
...registration advantage in the county. And in 2004, Bush won by less than 3 points here, roughly half his margin across the state. Democrats now hold 8 of 11 state house seats in Arapahoe, and they are one seat away from taking over the county commission. What explains the shift? At the same time that nearby Jefferson and Douglas counties were wooing away Arapahoe's upwardly mobile families, two of the county's three military bases closed, taking with them conservative voters. And the immigrants who moved in to replace them and once caused the backlash that launched Tancredo have...
...tendency to be preachy," says Larry Persily, who worked in Palin's Washington office. "They are true believers, zealots even." Irwin defends the hard line: "People in Alaska are tired of being pushed around by oil and gas companies." Palin's approach, Galvin says, "represented a fundamental shift in the entire relationship between the state and companies...
...Department (HUPD) does and should play in ensuring student safety. Rather than request that HUPD internally review its strategies in campus crime prevention or even encourage HUPD to engage with community members about their needs, the Staff dismisses such steps as the impulses of self-entitled students trying to shift blame away from themselves. Additionally, the Staff implies that students’ late night habits are to blame in this crime wave, a suggestion that ignores the reality of life at Harvard College In addition to maintaining a 24-hour library, Harvard readily encourages student groups to hold meetings...