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...week ago, President Obama touted a newly published report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that showed the country had lost 247,000 jobs in July. It seemed an odd thing to boast about, but you have to consider the context. The economy was losing jobs at three times that clip when Obama took office in January. So it is possible that we are emerging from the most frightening economic downturn since the Depression. We won't be the same country when...
...permits becomes impossible," he says. "The online system tracks the flow of approval routes and leaves behind evidence in real time. If a manager holds on to an application for too long, he becomes a suspect. So administration becomes faster and uncorrupt." And while every big-city mayor may boast that his government is less corrupt than the last guy's - and corporate corruption has been an acknowledged problem in South Korea - Seoul has been named the world's most "advanced and efficient e-government" for several years by a U.N.-sponsored e-government-evaluation agency...
Wurzelbacher, Samuel "Joe the Plumber" •appearance of at right-wing blogger conference features boast by that Nancy Pelosi is the kind of person "I usually took behind the woodshed and just beat the livin...
...newest of the four services of the U.S. military - the other three boast they are older than the country they defend, while the Air Force, around since 1947, barely qualifies for Social Security - its members often feel they don't get the credit they deserve. True, fighter pilots get an outsize share of attention to match their egos. But it's the flyboys-and-girls ferrying people, fuel and supplies - and piloting reconnaissance flights - around the globe that keep the war machine humming. "Petraeus, as leader of Centcom, the joint force charged with running operations in Southwest Asia, should have...
...three classes from psychology, philosophy, linguistics or English. Other concentrations are separated into several “tracks;” psychology, for instance, includes a general track, a Mind/Brain/Behavior track, and a Life Sciences track, all with plenty of overlap and elective freedom. Then again, some engineering tracks boast as many as 27 required classes, so it’s worth deciding early if you’d like to suffer that pain...