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...then, cautions C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics, a Washington think tank. More bearish than Hormats, he will allow that "maybe the worst of the crisis is behind us." But Bergsten emphasizes the difficulties of significant recovery--primarily that it will require "deep changes in banking systems, very fundamental changes in corporate governance systems...
...life of his five-year old son by hiding him from concentration camp guards. It takes a monumental risk by using a great deal of comedy in an unamusing environment: The father creates a fantasy world for his child in which the child will win a real army tank if he can successfully hide from the Nazi officials...
Colin L. Powell could have done just about anything after he retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: head a think tank, sign on as CEO of a big corporation, some say even run for President of the U.S. What he chose to do instead was to help children become happy, productive citizens. By creating America's Promise--the Alliance for Youth, Powell launched a national movement that has historically competitive organizations in the nonprofit sector collaborating for the first time on hundreds of programs...
...past, Republicans have refused to attend the conference because of a perceived liberal bent and would only attend a program sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank...
...example, the ripple tank that the team uses to show wave interference patterns is not commercially available, Rueckner says. Therefore, the team uses commercially-available equipment as a model and then designs equipment to meet the needs of larger lectures...