Word: strengthing
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...Eisenstein file from Africa on the disparate development of Mauritius and Angola. In Denmark, Justin Fox analyzes the country's success amid high tax rates. Asia hand Kathleen Kingsbury examines China's push to land R&D labs. Latin America expert Tim Padgett assesses the surprising economic strength of Argentina, Brazil and Chile. And business writer Barbara Kiviat explains the significance of the WEF's country rankings. We are also launching on TIME.com an amazing Global Business section--a hub for up-to-the-minute business news, sorted by country. It features a comparison of WEF country rankings, videos from...
...stage of development. A fundamentals-driven economy like Egypt or Bolivia is judged more on basic requirements such as the reliability of police services and electricity supply; an efficiency-driven economy like Brazil or Latvia is gauged more by measures such as Internet access in schools and strength of investor protection; and an innovation-driven economy like France or South Korea sees more weight put on more sophisticated issues such as company R&D spending and marketing...
...seen a bit of that hopscotching too. It is eighth in the world for quality of management schools yet 106th for quality of electricity supply. Bright minds, dim offices. The bigger story is that India trails that other unfurling economic giant: China finishes 34th overall, showing strength in areas like university-industry research collaboration (25th--see page 74) and national savings rate (7th) while remaining among the world's worst countries for things like the soundness of banks (128th). As for India, there is always discussion about the extent to which that country's bureaucratic, multistate, multiparty democracy handicaps...
...magic powers to fashion a god’s or hero’s life-partner weapon...Frieda, present at the creation of ‘Peanuts,’ helped to forge Schulz’s greatest instrument: his characters’ union of constrained size with irreducible strength.” While it is true that Schulz wanted his characters to be intelligent beyond their apparent years and endowed them with curiosities and fears that gave them philosophical profundity, the analogy seems contrived and ridiculous, and gives too much weight to Schulz’s acquaintance with this...
...some readers initially, but Solove backs his point by highlighting several case studies, including the Star Wars Kid, that illustrate the dangers of one of the modern age’s greatest tools. That focus on specific cases is far and away the book’s greatest strength. Rather than simply warning readers about possible scenarios, Solove shows first-hand the lives that have been ruined, combining descriptions of the original events with verbatim reproductions of comments posted by various bloggers throughout the Web. Most students have been told to be wary of what they post on information-sharing...