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According to my well-worn copy of Baumol and Blinder, the key to long-term prosperity in any economy is labor productivity growth. Labor productivity is simply the amount and quality of goods and services an economy can produce per unit of labor. The most important determinant of labor productivity is technology. Over the past 200 years, an explosion of technological innovations has allowed the average standard of living in the industrialized world to shift from subsistence farming to the modern luxuriance we all enjoy today...
...playing more as a unit," Clark said. "Our starting unit is a strong team...
...break midway through the second period, when sophomore Henry Higdon drove down the ice on a shorthanded bid, but was viciously taken down by a St. Lawrence defender. A no-call by the referee spurred a Saints' attack, which eventually penned Higdon and the rest of his tired shorthanded unit deep in the Harvard zone...
...claimed they were fired or demoted for raising safety concerns; in two cases, the NRC fined Northeast. In one, Paul Blanch, who had only recently been named engineer of the year by a leading industry journal, was subjected to company-wide harassment after he discovered that some of Millstone Unit 3's safety instrumentation didn't work properly...
With missionary zeal, Galatis continued to forward allegations to the NRC. Yet four months passed before Galatis finally heard from Donald Driskill, an agent with the NRC's Office of Investigations (the second watchdog unit inside the NRC, this one tracks wrongdoing by utilities). Galatis felt that Driskill was too relaxed about the case. Driskill talked to Northeast about Galatis' charges--a breach of confidentiality that the NRC calls "inadvertent." When Hadley complained to him about Northeast's alleged harassment of Galatis, Driskill suggested he talk to Northeast's lawyer: "He's a really nice...