Word: states
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...Street prepares to hand out eye-popping year-end bonuses, the larger question is this: Just how much does it matter what people are paid? "Where is the empirical evidence that by doing what Feinberg is doing, we'll solve the problems that caused the financial crisis?" asks Ohio State University finance professor René Stulz, who has looked at whether excessive CEO pay caused the credit crunch...
...editor of a small Shanghai newspaper, is carefully groomed in an epicene, metrosexual way that is unusual among Chinese males of his age. Affable if slightly wary, he is an old hand at interviews, deftly batting away questions that don't suit him, including most concerning the current state of Chinese literature and his place in it. "It's stupid to try to evaluate one's own works," he says, lacing his answer with frequent expletives. "If you are too humble, people won't take you seriously; and if you think too highly of yourself, it's not good...
Absolutely! We have great bones as a city and as a state. We have more engineers in this region than in all the other states plus Canada and Mexico combined. We are in a tough period because we have an auto crisis and a financial crisis, so we're hit harder than any other state in the country...
...experts tell us that between 2000 and 2010, Michigan will have lost a million jobs. Revenue to the state has plummeted. It's why we have focused on regional collaborations--for example, our Michigan state police deployed in partnership with the Detroit police. You've got to be able to share resources like that. It is clear that while you go through this tough time, you have to have police officers on the street...
...dimensions of the Baluch struggle are made all the more complicated by the region's political geography. Around a million ethnic Baluch live on the other side of the border in Iran and there, too, have long agitated against a repressive state for greater freedoms. During Pakistan's most brutal crackdown on Baluch separatists in the 1970s - when civilians reportedly died in the thousands - Iran lent Pakistan logistical support, including helicopters. At the time, the two countries were allied together under the U.S.-led CENTO Cold War pact, but following Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 relations changed, with Tehran...