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Then again, most of these things were true 14 years ago, and Denmark's welfare-state model seemed exhausted, beset by stagnant growth and double-digit unemployment. Some on the political right--including current Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who wrote a book in 1993 called From Social State to Minimal State--were convinced that taxes and spending had to be cut dramatically. But that was never in the cards politically, and Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (there are a lot of Rasmussens in Denmark), who became Prime Minister that year, crafted a compromise that kept the high taxes...
Unlike the President, we find many reasons to support the bill. Federal funding for higher education has been lackluster for years, as evidenced by the fact that the maximum Pell Grant was stagnant from 2002 until the beginning of 2007. This bill presents an opportunity to build on previous increases in order to create a more robust program that better reflects the costs faced by low-income students at state universities...
...presentations from executives at ConAgra Foods, a Fortune 500 company that sells packaged food brands such as Chef Boyardee and Slim Jim. R. Dean Hollis, who runs the Consumer Foods Division at ConAgra, spoke to the group about problem-solving. He presented a case study on how ConAgra, facing stagnant sales with its Hebrew National kosher beef hot dogs, began marketing the product to non-Jews by saying that they were healthier than regular hot dogs. Sales for Hebrew National went up 8 percent for fiscal year 2007.“The true test of a company is not whether...
...Shakespeare, academic readers should learn to actively critique their work—not to idolize but to continually question their cultural value, as they would when reading any book. Even this slight change in approach would prevent the canon—and the department—from becoming stagnant, and would encourage students to think more creatively and intelligently about what constitutes a “great work...
...party may be ending for the nation's 13,000 check cashers. With retail banks facing stagnant revenue growth, they are vying for a foothold in what some call the "last frontier" of the domestic market. Over the past six years, Wells Fargo has opened 1 million accounts for Mexican nationals living in the U.S. by becoming the first bank to accept the Matricula Consular identification card that Mexican consulates in the U.S. began issuing after 9/11. A growing number of banks, including KeyBank and Union Bank of California, are also offering low-cost check cashing...