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Under inflation targeting, the Federal Reserve would publicly announce a level of inflation it is trying to achieve, instead of its current policy of striving for low inflation without naming a specific target...
...After a high-level meeting, the party's guns swiveled from the Conservatives to target the Lib Dems. Campaign workers were hustled into key marginal seats, and Blair gave a speech condemning the Lib Dems' policies on crime and drugs. Still the Lib Dems kept surging: by Sunday, the number crunchers at Victoria Street calculated their share of the vote could reach 25% by election day. Finally the Labour counterattack gained traction, and the tide subsided. The day before the election, Mark Penn, a U.S. pollster working for Labour, was able to write on a big whiteboard at headquarters...
...snatched a narrow electoral victory in 2002, he garnered desperately needed votes by opposing George W. Bush's plans to invade Iraq. Now, in the run-up to crucial elections in North Rhine-Westphalia later this month, his party has launched a new assault. This time the target is Anglo Saxon-style capitalism. Franz Müntefering, chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), inveighed against "swarms of locusts that fall on companies, stripping them bare before moving on." The inspiration for this alarming imagery was identified last week when his headquarters leaked a "locust list" naming the alleged pests. These...
...planners, assisted-living facilities, case managers and skilled nursing care. The staff, Bouty says, "is pretty much our age. It's all about getting in there and helping, doing something different and feeling good about what you're doing instead of just working for a paycheck." They knew their target audience was other midlife women: "We are historically and naturally the caregivers in our family ... the majority of our clients are the adult children trying to figure out what to do next...
...need to provide perspectives often slighted by the mainstream media's fixation on "official" news. Navasky brings a clear-eyed candor to discussing the lengths to which his magazine has gone to maintain its viability: he admits to appearing on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor--a frequent target of the Nation's jeremiads--solely to boost circulation...