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...Arabiya interview are of a piece: respect will be paid to Muslims by the Obama Administration. The long-term goal is to weaken the regional tyrants and extremists by depriving them of the Great Satan caricature - the first step toward a more plausible U.S. policy in the area, the threshold necessary for creative negotiating to begin...
...before it's forced to move the discount down to 20%. The customer also has to make some bets. For example, Erickson, the Great American CFO, worked on the liquidation for the Montgomery Ward department stores a few years back. He gave himself a 30% off threshold for a backyard shed. Once the sale dropped that far, he would jump. But all sheds were gone from the store at 20%. "I got screwed on our own sale," he says. (See the top 10 gadgets...
...rather than having to ram it through with a simple Democratic majority. But Senate aides on both sides of the aisle say that while the bill is likely to pass, such overwhelming support would be difficult if not impossible to garner. Even overcoming the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold would require convincing at least two Republicans to support the plan (unless the much contested Minnesota Senate race is suddenly resolved in the Democrats' favor, in which case Obama would need only one Republican...
...that could soon change as the economics turn dark for the energy sector. High prices bankroll high-cost production and fund technology improvements that make hard-to-reach minerals accessible, while low prices mean wells with high production costs are shut in. The threshold price for oil-operations expansion is around $50 a barrel, according to Combs. "This constant roller coaster [in prices] is something the industry is really getting sick of," Ingham says. (Read "Web-Savvy Homeowners vs. Landmen...
...replication of Milgram's famous demonstration was watered down somewhat; a review of his findings by University of California-Davis professor Alan Elms terms the study "Obedience Lite." The electric charges were purposefully subtler and the conditions less stressful. But the takeaway is no less disturbing: humanity's threshold for cruelty is, like everything else, situational. We seem wired to follow orders, even when they're harmful to others. In her chilling portrayal of Nazi middle-manager Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt famously excoriated this impulse as "the banality of evil." Evil is way too strong a word for the conduct...