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...other mostly young Iranians. Beyond that, he has indeed attracted strong support from nationalists for his defiance of the West and underprivileged Iranians who hope to benefit from his promise to spread the country's oil wealth around more evenly. But there are doubts about how long he can sustain that broader support. Less than halfway into his four-year term, many Iranians are griping about rising inflation and the economic and political risks in isolating Iran from the West. Both the protests and the election results show that Iranians are more interested in what Ahmadinejad does for their stomachs...
...business would change. Well, they don't have three years, they probably have 30 years. Every time a newspaper reader dies, he will not be replaced. If you look at what it costs to produce and distribute a newspaper, there comes a time when the subscriber base can't sustain the production and distribution costs. Thirty years ago teens didn't read newspapers, but they started when they reached their 30s. Today, teens don't read newspapers and they never will. If there were a newspaper strike across America today, almost no one under the age of 30 would notice...
...commission to the President? After some hesitation, Rice agreed, but she made one request: the commission had to look forward, not backward, in part because she knew the dysfunctional Bush foreign policy operation, tilted as it was so heavily along the Cheney-Rumsfeld axis, would not permit, much less sustain, scrutiny. As the trio departed, a Rice aide asked one of her suitors not to inform anyone at the Pentagon that chairmen had been chosen and the study group was moving forward. If Rumsfeld was alerted to the study group's potential impact, the aide said, he would quickly tell...
...term as premier is his biggest albatross. Taking power on the cusp of a debilitating recession, Rae administered policies that alienated both sides of the political spectrum. His government borrowed to sustain a mounting deficit, and Rae won the enmity of his own NDP brethren with austere legislation freezing public-sector wages and forcing public servants to take an extra 10 days off each year without pay. Rae has attempted to shed his image as an inept manager, telling the Economic Club of Toronto early in the campaign that balanced budgets, competitive corporate taxes and lower individual income taxes...
...sectarian violence? I will assure him that we will do everything in our power to make sure that they are able to establish a safe haven in Iraq. I will ask him what is required and what is your strategy to be a country which can govern itself and sustain itself...