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There are still some big risks for Europe. Blanqué said maintaining employment growth is essential if the economy is to expand. He is worried that companies in Europe remain cautious about investing and are instead focused on reducing debt. "There's this great American saying that nobody has ever shrunk their way to greatness," quipped Achleitner, in agreement. But he said he is seeing a new mood among European companies. "People are starting to think they are coming to the end of their shrinking exercises and need to put on the growth...
...same time that Harvard’s first-half field goal percentage of 29.2 ballooned to 51.5 in the second, Dartmouth’s figure shrunk to an anemic 22.7 in the final frame of regulation...
...mass tourism--one of the least celebrated but most profound of all the ways in which the world has been shrunk in the past 20 years--made the disaster uniquely personal to those who live thousands of miles away from its mayhem, so did modern technology. From broadband and wifi-enabled hotels, guests could email messages, pictures and videos back home. Mobile phones allowed people to stay in touch with their loved ones. And by some miracle of technology for which many were grateful, even when mobile circuits were overloaded, text messages got through. Sam Nicols, an engineer who researches...
...Kremlin regards countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus as vital buffers between Russia and the West. Like Russian rulers for the past two centuries, Putin "equates security with well-defined zones of interest," says James Sherr, an Eastern Europe specialist at Oxford Uni-versity. Those zones have shrunk in recent years as the Baltic states and Georgia turned sharply toward the West. Putin doesn't want to see the same thing happen in Ukraine...
...gate. He remained at Harvard until last May, when the University announced that all guard positions would henceforth be outsourced to Allied-Barton Security—a company that had been steadily cutting into the Harvard guard union’s workforce since the 1970s. The union, which had shrunk from over 120 members to a mere seven by the time the Allied deal was struck last summer, was thus finished...