Word: tanked
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...this had happened in the 1980s, when ETA was stronger, it would have been an important arrest, but not a crucial one," says sociologist Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, ETA expert at the Juan March Institute, a Madrid-based think tank. "But there have been a lot of important arrests recently, which means that whoever replaces Txeroki won't have much experience, and that, in turn, will make them even weaker." (See Pictures of the Week...
...think providing more leverage to consumers is best for our economy in the long-term," says Adam Lerrick, who is a visiting scholar the conservative-leaning Washington-based think tank American Enterprise Institute. "The consensus is that consumers have borrowed too much over the past 10 years, so I don't get why putting them further into debt is the answer." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Afghanistan will be at the top of the U.S. priorities for Europe," says Tomas Valasek, director of foreign policy and defense at the Centre for European Reform, a London think tank. He says Obama will appeal for more soldiers in the dangerous southern part of Afghanistan to fight Taliban insurgents. "Obama will put more troops in the country and expect Europe to do the same. And even though all European governments are short on troops and money, many will respond in kind." (See pictures of Obama's family tree...
...answers, I decided to check in with the Center for American Progress (CAP) - the think tank run by Obama's transition chief, John Podesta - which has drafted a green-energy stimulus plan of its own. "We identified $50 billion in programs that are ready to go immediately," says Bracken Hendricks of CAP. "The package would create 2 million jobs across the skill spectrum, from blue collar to high tech, and in almost every area of the country. There was huge congressional appetite for this even before the economic crisis...
...Good luck with that, responds Terry Miller, director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington. Miller says that while certain common agreements to increase transparency of financial markets may be acceptable, Obama - like Bush - won't "allow large and vital sectors of America's economy that thrive on innovation to be fenced in" by international accords. And while he thinks Sarkozy's efforts to raise expectations about what the summit can achieve are misguided, Miller does see a logic to meeting to discuss the crisis...