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Donene M. Williams, the president of HUCTW, said: "In negotiations this last spring and summer, we were determined to make sure that joint committee was set up right--as a serious, active process that could solve short-term problems, find alternatives to bad ideas and develop plans for better, new programs in the long term...
Label recommended a slow but steady increase in course offerings and the appointment of a handful of visiting or associate professors who specialize in ethnic studies as a short-term solution...
...Another factor can be traced to the trascible American citizen, who demands a balanced budget but refuses to accept tax hikes. Having come to power on such a platform, the Republicans must now cut left and right and carelessly. However, our lawmakers must realize that their attempt to attain short-term economic stability will result in a long-term decline in America's financial health, as our exports become limited to bad movies and fast food...
...example, stories on June 27 reported that the Dow was off 34.59 points. The Journal led off its analysis with the following: "Hopes are fading that the Fed will cut short-term rates." The Times chose to focus on the slump in technology issues and the fact that Disney's Pocahontas was not raking in the expected revenues. Then on June 28, USA Today had stocks falling on "trade-war fears," but in the Times, they fell as "market players reacted to conflicting reports on the economy and worried about the direction of interest rates...
...person, by the effort to remember him or by connection with some other mental trigger ("This woman is attractive; she's worth getting to know better," or, "This man looks unpleasant; I need to avoid him")-the more likely, says Damasio, the pattern, or image, will not go into short-term memory, lasting weeks or months, but into permanent, long-term memory. And from there, barring brain injury, disease or old age, it can be re-created by inducing the neurons to send up electric impulses in the old, by now familiar pattern...