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Those cultural traits create the bottom line of our success: productivity, the closest measure of national efficiency, as well as technological creativity and ultimately wealth creation. In those areas, the U.S. continues to be the wonder of the world. From 1947 to the oil shock of 1973, our productivity grew annually at an average compounding 3% rate. For the next 20 years that rate was mysteriously cut in half, the background for much of the declinist vogue of the '80s. Then in the past decade, when we finally stopped playing with our newfangled computers and figured...
...Harper, 46, a policy wonk, hockey-trivia buff and father of two, is one of the youngest PMs to occupy 24 Sussex Drive. He may also be one of the most forthright. "What's going to shock the nation is he means every word he says," says Jim Hawkes, a retired Calgary Tory M.P. who gave Harper his first job in politics, as a researcher in his Ottawa office. Although he will lead a slender, 124-member minority Conservative caucus in the 308-seat House of Commons, Harper seems resolved to fulfill the campaign pledges that brought the Conservatives...
...want to continue living in the U.S. Immigrant advocates oppose the idea, saying that a full amnesty giving permanent legal status is the only practical way to deal with the estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S. without sending the economy, not to mention its poorest workers, into shock. But neither the President nor the amnesty crowd has a bill already rolling through Congress. That distinction belongs to House conservatives, who passed a hard-line border-security measure, stripped of any nod to guest-worker status, in December. The Senate will likely consider it this month...
...relief, yet some industry executives are skeptical. "So far, the company's driving him," says Gerald Meyers, former CEO of the defunct American Motor Co. and an expert in crisis management. "He needs to say, 'This is not about the past, this is about the future--we need some shock and awe.' Is Bill Ford prepared to do that? I don't see it so far." Counters Mark Fields, president of Ford's Americas division, who put together the restructuring plan for North America: "You don't have to be a tyrant to be tough." Certainly, anyone willing...
...Shock value. Curiosity value. Armfuls of awards. A lovely lead performance or two. A film that makes you think, lets you cry. It's no wonder Brokeback broke through...