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...nearly as economically significant as cars, electricity and their ilk, thinks we're headed back toward the low pre-1995 productivity trend. The country's other most prominent productivity guru, Harvard's Dale Jorgenson, is more sanguine. He sees large swaths of the economy - health care, education, government - still waiting to be transformed by information technology and expects that to bring us another decade of high productivity growth. We'll have to wait and see who's right. In the meantime, if we average their latest projections, we get productivity growth of just over 2%, which...
...Danner, executive vice president of the National Federation of Independent Business, says most of his 350,000 members are "some combination of nervous, scared, in the trenches. At the moment, credit is not a problem only because they're in survivor mode, waiting to see if they're going to have customers tomorrow." David Guernsey, who owns an office-products firm in Chantilly, Va., knows the feeling. While less expensive items are selling, purchases of office furniture that are normally bank-financed are lagging. Customers are telling his sales staff, "We just need to circle the wagons and wait this...
...lane markings, no speed limits, no police and no one knowing if they should drive on the left side or the right side of the road. You make your own rules and do your best to get to your destination. In the world of globality, you can't wait for someone else to set the rules...
...this puts Obama-supporting Muslims in a tight spot. As the election draws near, many have adopted a “wait-and-see” policy: They hold off on doing anything that might provide more fuel for his detractors, yet secretly hope for his acknowledgement. “A lot of us are waiting for him to say that there’s nothing wrong with being a Muslim,” admitted Rep. Keith Ellison, the country’s first Muslim congressman, in July...
...Nobels, awarded annually in Sanders Theater to scientific “achievements that first make people LAUGH, and then make them THINK,” wait so long to honor this important research? Because right now the world needs it, and Harvard is ready—whether we know it or not. Since the awards didn’t offer a hard answer, FM hit the streets with a survey of our own to discern whether Harvard students have more faith in the Ig or the Nobel...