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...contracted 5% overall. Critics said she was doing too little, too slowly and that her efforts were targeted at the wrong industries. She argues that her response has been vindicated. The German economy began to rebound in the second half of 2009, and helped by an aggressive "short time" work program, its unemployment rate has steadily declined to 7.5%, compared with 10% in the U.S. No economy is free from the threat of backsliding yet, however, and the head of Germany's federal labor agency has predicted joblessness will rise again this year. But as world trade picks...
...their car." Yet most of us barely notice which browser we're using - we tend to stick with whatever comes loaded on our computer, as long as it allows us to check our e-mail, do a little shopping, peruse Facebook and send the occasional tweet. We live and work within a browser, and it makes no difference whether it's Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari or Mozilla's Firefox, as long as it gets the job done, right? But things are different now. (See the top 10 gadgets...
Percy, who was born in Texas and studied law at Columbia University and Brooklyn Law School on the GI Bill, became Manhattan borough president in 1966--making him the highest-ranking black official in the state at the time. His 1977 run for mayor was unsuccessful, but his work cleared the way for politicians like Representative Charlie Rangel and David Dinkins, who in 1989 was elected the city's first black mayor...
Knowing how to work the media, of course, has long been essential for a serious politician. But in 2010, a media career is itself a viable basis for political power--and even a political career...
...used to be that media skills were necessary but secondary to political seasoning. Ronald Reagan's TV-spokesman work on General Electric Theater marked him as a rising conservative star, but his political career unfolded over decades. In 1936, radio demagogue Father Charles Coughlin--the Glenn Beck of his time--founded a third party, with little success...