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...victory speech, the 66-year-old former insurance salesman acknowledged the challenges that his ambitious platform will face in the coming four years...
Despite his loss, Flaherty struck an optimistic note in his concession speech tonight. “What we’ve learned tonight is that change takes some time,” he said...
White’s speech was part of a series of lectures organized by the Harvard Association of Law and Business. According to Michael R. Rozensher, a second-year student at HLS who organized the event, the goal of the series is to spread awareness of corporate responsibility...
Gutmann’s words recall the more famous speech by President John F. Kennedy ’40, who argued before Congress at the start of his own moon program that “This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.” As we are currently slated to begin a moon colony in 2020, NASA is making laudable progress in creating the infrastructure needed for it. After the moon colony is established...
...known that he thinks the imbalances between the U.S. and China contributed to the financial breakdown of the global economy. China's excess savings were sloshing around and needed a home, and profligate America was more than willing to borrow those savings. On Oct. 19, Bernanke gave a speech in which he said that while personal savings in the U.S. is now rising, the government had to get its own accounts in better order. He then pointedly noted that "policies that artificially enhance incentives for domestic savings and the production of export goods" have got to go in order...