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...taken the step of essentially bypassing the banks to mainline money into the system. It is quick, and quickness is what is called for as the recession bites harder each...
...article of faith among economists that rising global protectionism intensified the Great Depression of the 1930s. History looks back at the infamous Smoot-Hawley Act, which jacked up tariffs in the U.S., as a disastrous step that stymied the international economic cooperation needed to alleviate the worst economic catastrophe in modern history. Even the U.S. State Department says the act "quickly became a symbol of the 'beggar thy neighbor' policies of the 1930s." Between 1929 and 1934, world trade declined by about two-thirds...
...inventor of the modern wet suit. It has since raised nearly all of the $10,000 and has a series of concerts and film screenings lined up to keep the money flowing and assure a future past June 30. "If a surfer gets an idea, you've got to step aside," explained Young. "We don't take no for an answer. We'll go right through...
...want to be there. Neither does that little Asian girl, who’s fallen asleep crying over her Orgo textbook (trust me). So, maybe they save their desks and make it slightly harder for you to find one, Mr. mid-afternoon-casual-Lamont-visitor. Take a step back and feel for your fellow Lamont-goer...not to say I wrote the textbook, but maybe some of us need to study up on sympathy. —Frances...
...Jane Ballentine, the director of marketing at the Maryland Zoo, which has been forced to close for four additional weeks this winter. "If something needs to be fed, it's going to be fed." If a zoo is really struggling with a budget deficit, Feldman notes, wealthier zoos can step in to take over the care of some animals. But "that's a last resort," he says...