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...designing our poll, we tried to get at people's behavior as well as their attitudes. It's one thing to say you are anxious about the future; it's another to raid your retirement fund to pay the bills. We found interesting differences tied to age and gender and income. Young people are much more likely to borrow money from family or friends than older people are, and men are more optimistic than women. In the end, no matter when people think we'll come out of this recession, most say they will continue their new frugal habits...
...environment. "You cannot make this business work by just spinning commodity yarn, making commodity-type fabrics and competing only on price," says Hensley. "We take a market and hone it and make the highest-quality [yarn] at the lowest price. We're constantly trying to find the next new thing...
...major-network TV. There are too many other channels, other media, other diversions. The audience has been sliced and diced into confetti, and it is no longer possible for a new drama to get tens of millions of viewers to sit down on their couches and watch the same thing at the same time...
...some quarters, there is skepticism about whether a military response is appropriate. These aren't terrorists, one argument goes, because privation, not politics, is the root of the crisis. To listen to this woolly-headed analysis, you would think piracy was the closest thing Somalis had to a workable aid program. "The threat of death," editorializes the Los Angeles Times, "isn't much of a deterrent to hopeless young Somali men who face a choice between potentially making millions on the high seas or starving on shore...
...hours a day to accommodate its slew of new visitors, the approximately 1100 “pre-frosh” in attendance had the opportunity to attend organized events ranging from academic and extracurricular orientations to various social receptions and parties. “There are like 1000 things to do,” said Gary D. Carlson, an incoming freshman from New Jersey. “It’s hard to decide what to do and so I have ended up doing nothing.” “It seems like there are a lot of opportunities...