Word: slaughtered
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...losing in this discussion is, Is outsourcing bad for America? Is globalization good or bad for America?" Baumol, along with his fellow panelists on TIME's Board of Economists--RON HIRA of the Rochester Institute of Technology, CATHERINE MANN of the Institute for International Economics and MATTHEW SLAUGHTER of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth--proceeded to delve into that hotly contested question. Under prodding from TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM, the panel wrestled with issues of policy, politics and economic philosophy, sometimes clashing sharply. But in the end they agreed on a sobering call to action. The future...
...MATTHEW SLAUGHTER: There is something lost in the discussion about trying to identify the number of jobs lost to outsourcing. Counting jobs in these snapshots misses the point. Globalization for the U.S. economy continues to create very large gains, but those gains don't accrue to every single worker. There's too much focus [on] policy solutions for those directly impacted. Given the fluidity in the labor market, these pressures are really spread economywide...
...SLAUGHTER: I think we're at a really important point. An important political decision needs to be made about how much we're going to allow this globalization of industries and labor forces to continue. We've got the capacity now to globalize production in a much wider range of economic activities. When I go to my dentist's office, I look at the wall behind the receptionist, and it's all these paper files. That's all going to change. Maybe some of that will get digitized, maybe some will go to India or China or God knows where...
...professions of outrage have done nothing to stop the killing. Immediately after labeling the Janjaweed's slaughter genocide, Powell told lawmakers, "No new action is dictated by this determination"--despite the fact that the international Genocide Convention, signed by the U.S. and 134 other countries, obligates signatories to "prevent and to punish" genocide where it is occurring. Already stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq and wary of intervening in another Muslim state, the U.S. has ruled out sending troops to Africa's largest country, throwing its support instead behind a proposal to deploy several thousand African observers, not to halt...
...parts of the central range of jagged, extinct volcanoes on camels and horses or in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns. Bands of 10 or 12 men swoop into a village, shoot the men and boys, rape the women, loot and burn huts and mosques, rip up crops and slaughter or steal livestock. Halima, 30, was working in her family's field in the village of Gadarra when she heard "the voice of guns" last July. "The attackers were on foot and running and shooting. They wanted to kill us," she says. Scooping up her daughter Amna, 2, she fled...