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...instance, in Queensland electrical workers at Energex and Ergon secured a 31% pay rise over three years. Unless spending slows, inflationary pressures can spread across the economy, inviting a harsher interest-rate response, and lower rates of growth - a waste of potential and income the community is unlikely to accept. Over time, so-called microeconomic reforms can improve the nation's supply side. But it won't make any difference in this phase of history - such reforms take years to bed down and for the gains to flow through...
...government run by exiles who fled to Iran and the West during Saddam's regime. The insurgents also seek a guaranteed timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal, a demand the U.S. refuses. But there are some hints of compromise: insurgent negotiators have told their U.S. counterparts they would accept a U.N. peacekeeping force as the U.S. troop presence recedes. Insurgent representative Abu Mohammed says the nationalists would even tolerate U.S. bases on Iraqi soil. "We don't mind if the invader becomes a guest," he says, suggesting a situation akin to the U.S. military presence in Germany and Japan...
...What is now impairing Summers’ ability to lead is the refusal of some to accept a sincere apology, put this behind us, and find ways to work together.” Badaracco said...
...most heated moments of the debate came over the question of “innate differences” between the sexes. Freshman Arvind H. Vaz ’08 said that certain feminist critics are “anti-child” and refuse to accept certain family roles...
First, Viscusi and Aldy’s method would produce a much lower estimate for “the value of a statistical life” in a Third World country, where workers might—out of necessity—accept much greater risks for higher pay. (Many will find this observation so repugnant that it renders the entire “statistical life” approach illegitimate...