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...major studios for a foray into the rental business, but at this point it is late in the game: Apple's iTunes began offering movie rentals in 2008, and Amazon.com has a movie store as well. The 800-pound gorilla in online cinema remains Netflix, whose on-demand streaming system lacks new releases but offers unlimited streaming of some 8,000 older titles, from WALL-E to Cool Hand Luke...
...library project—which required extensive work from the Learning Through Libraries volunteers on most afternoons—consisted of not only covering and cataloging the books for check-out, but also teaching students how to use and appreciate the library system and showing teachers how to use the library in the classroom...
...hadn't tackled health care, this year was going to be a tough year. During the transition period last year, it became apparent very quickly that we were going to have to make some fast, tough and in some cases politically unpopular decisions to make sure the financial system didn't melt down and we did not spiral into a second Great Depression. We made those decisions and executed them, and I am absolutely convinced that had we not acted the way we did that the situation would've been far worse. (See how Barack Obama handled his first year...
...that had been resisted for years. And you're starting to see the teachers' unions really think through how can they be a partner in the process of reform. And when it comes to infrastructure, not only was it the biggest investment in infrastructure since the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, but we actually introduced the infrastructure-bank concept in the Recovery...
Cobos belongs to Argentina's middle-of-the road Radical Party, which lost its role as the counterbalance to the populist Peronists when Argentina's dual-party system broke down following the downfall of the disastrous Radical administration of President Fernando de la Rua in 2001. Economic collapse and social unrest led Argentina to default on $141 billion in foreign debt. Since then, the rambunctious Peronists have dominated Argentina's political scene, first under Nestor Kirchner, who oversaw the country's return to decent economic health, and then under his wife Fernandez, who was labeled Argentina's new Evita when...