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...Despite the billions the government spent on consumer-spending incentives to stimulate industrial output - like implementing cash-for-clunkers subsidies for new car buyers - the schemes didn't lead to massive growth in manufacturing. Industrial production and service-sector activities fared no better than the overall 0.1% growth figure for the fourth quarter, economists noted. "When the results were announced this morning during the meeting we were holding for the occasion, the hundreds of gathered guests all howled in derision and embarrassment at the figures they heard," says David Buik, a market analyst at the London brokerage firm BGC Partners...
...Buik worries that the bright outlooks ignore the darker realities of relying on government stimulus money to restore economic growth. "Ultimately, states are going to have to cut spending and raise taxes to pay for what they've already spent," he says. "That means a period of fewer public jobs, reduced aid payments and less disposable income in consumers' pockets. Businesses will only start reinvesting money on production and jobs when they're sure demand has returned - and that isn't likely before we see government undertake cost-cutting we know is inevitable." (Read a piece on London as part...
...last stage of treatment is relapse prevention. Therapists and patients discuss triggers for addictive behavior - unstructured time alone, for example - and identify ways to avoid them. Brian McGinness, a senior cost estimator at a Michigan commercial construction manufacturer, spent the first nine years of his marriage addicted to pornography. His treatment was supervised by members of his church who belonged to an anti-pornography ministry group called XXXchurch and a neighborhood friend, who all acted as "accountability partners," monitoring his Internet usage after he decided to get sober. (Sex addiction shares use of the word sobriety with other forms...
...many countries signed contracts with manufacturers under that assumption; it turned out that a single dose was enough to build immunity. But the main reason for the surplus is simply that demand for the vaccine fell far short of what was originally expected. Now, after governments have spent billions of dollars on vaccines that were not needed - France alone spent $1.25 billion - some politicians and health professionals are looking to hold someone accountable...
Mounier-Jack's comment echoes the basic question that Wodarg and other critics of the WHO are aiming to pose at Tuesday's hearing: Given that other health problems were more deserving of the billions of dollars spent tackling H1N1, how do the WHO and governments explain their decisions...