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...Sure, you know things are bad. You've heard stories from friends and family about getting laid off and have read news pieces about cutbacks at factories in some part of the country far from where you live. But, as dry as much of the Federal Reserve Beige Book can be, there's something calming about its comprehensiveness, a sense of solidarity in misery. Oil extraction is poor in Texas, restaurants in San Francisco are doing badly, and the peanut industry - let's not talk about the peanut industry. The Fed predicts things are going to get worse over...
...Chinese really need and the government barely provides. Meanwhile, China is throwing money at infrastructure projects to a degree that the U.S. - with its creaky bridges, potholed roads, crumbling schools and obsolete airports - hasn't seen in decades. There is some infrastructure spending in the U.S. plan, to be sure, but not enough, many economists believe, to deliver a real jolt to a moribund economy...
...forced to use computerized orders or risk losing our hospital privileges. But most of us have found that CPOE is a lot harder than writing out orders on paper, takes far more time and in too many ways is just not as good. We're never quite sure that what we've typed is going to be seen by a real, live, analog nurse, that it isn't just going to disappear. (It does.) We can't order certain things with those buttons and pull-down menus that we could in writing - things like "patient may wear her own flannel...
...separate bodies: the UC, the administration, and the faculty.Judith H. Kidd, associate dean of the College and one of the ten members on the Dowling Committee, said her role will now be to encourage dialogue.“The role that I would play is to make sure that the conversation continues,” she said.Kidd advised that the UC open up discussion with the College.UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10 said she is currently scheduling meetings with “the appropriate Deans.”Many members of the executive board of the Council?...
...perception is reality, Geithner's fate rests less on how he performs in public than on how his plans fare: the market and most Americans care a lot more about the substance of the Administration's efforts to save the economy than they do about Geithner's thin delivery. Sure, he doesn't seem to fill his suit, and he talks too quickly, and he swallows the ends of his sentences, and he gives the impression of a grad student taking an oral exam, not someone leading the country out of perdition. But he'll be the hero...