Word: turnabout
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...Prime Minister Paul Martin was running second in opinion surveys behind Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, whose right-of-center platform of taxation, gun control and same-sex marriage (he doesn't like any of them) until recently seemed to place him well outside the Canadian mainstream. Why the turnabout? Because Canada is having a nationwide attack of virtue. Corruption scandals have steadily eroded the government's grip on power - in direct proportion to its impressive longevity. Canada, famous for hockey, waggish comedians and an unforgiving Arctic climate, is also home to one of the world's longest-ruling political...
...bother. / The world isn't coming to an end. He said: 'Walk like a man. Talk like a man. / Walk like a man, my son / No woman's worth crawling on the earth, / So walk like a man, my son.'" This father-son speech teaches the lad that turnabout is fair play: "I'll tell the world, / 'Forget about it, girl,' / And walk like a man from...
...corporate and other taxes. If they can hire support staff, these small one- or two-person businesses in many cases have to fund benefits that the employers themselves do not have: sick leave, paid four-week vacations, holidays, maternity leave, a 35-hour workweek and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow governments and voters can't make the leap of imagination and realize that less taxation can bring greater...
...corporate and other taxes. If they can hire support staff, these small one- or two-person businesses in many cases have to fund benefits that the employers themselves do not have: sick leave, paid four-week vacations, holidays, maternity leave, a 35-hour work week and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow governments and voters can't make the leap of imagination and realize that less taxation can bring...
...another began. When all the ghastly totals were added up, it would be reckoned that some 40 million Europeans had lost their lives during the war; alongside them fell 160,045 Americans, 45,057 Canadians and thousands of others of non-European nationalities. Since then, in a near-miraculous turnabout, the nations of Western Europe have risen from the rubble and grown into the world's second-largest economic entity, ranking below only the U.S. In a remarkable fashion, that accomplishment owes much to the superpowers. From the West came the generosity and vision of the U.S., through the Marshall...