Word: states
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...profound than any ever seen in the Western world. Hundreds of millions of people once anchored by the certainties of guaranteed jobs and social services for life are now being cast adrift to fend for themselves in the turbulent waters of the market economy. "By closing down thousands of state enterprises that were losing money, China is creating unemployment on a scale never seen before anywhere in the world," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "That creates an enormous threat of social instability, which makes the government very insecure about its ability to hold the whole society together. And that insecurity...
...taught accounting to people who provide care for the mentally disabled. They're real heroes, but what they didn't realize was that if they couldn't understand the accounting dimension, they couldn't go out and get the resources to execute their dreams; they couldn't qualify for state funding...
...state of mental alertness, relieves headaches and migraines, increases...
...State attorney general's offices should also follow suit. Florida's case was moved forward when, on Sept. 21, an appeals court agreed to reconsider a pro-tobacco ruling earlier this month which had stated that smokers' claims for punitive damage had to be heard individually instead of in class action suits...
Harvard spent $1.15 billion on payroll, goods and services in the area over the past year, the report says, and most of the University's revenue comes from outside the state--importing capital that is then spent here...