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...bucked up Scot MacDonald when the Prime Minister offered to step down and persuaded Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin to enter and support the present "National Government" under Mr. Macdonald. This new government presented themselves as the only group able to keep Sterling on the gold standard and avoid the inflation into which another Labor Cabinet must rush by printing enough money to keep up their Dole pace. As a horrible example of inflation. Orator James Ramsay MacDonald flourished a dog-eared envelope with the cry, "My friends, during the German inflation it cost 80,000,000,000 marks...
Verba said the University has tried to avoid publicizing the projects because “the people we’re working with could get into deep trouble for collaborating with the West...
...There’s no way my main man Larry Summers could avoid a direct appeal regarding the issue in Sudan,” said Rivers, who has been painted as a challenger to the Rev. Jesse Jackson as America’s most influential black leader. “Let’s do something that’s morally definitive and intellectually coherent. You’re Harvard students, it won’t cost you anything. You could do it and not miss a beat...
...fact, Hamish McAlpine, head of a U.K. film distributor, told The Guardian that although remake deals include distribution rights, many of the originals never make it into stores. “It’s an insurance policy,” he explained, that allows studios to avoid comparison with the originals. While American businesses condemn their Asian imitators for costing them lost revenue, they’re slamming the door in the face of the original filmmakers...
Between 14 and 24 percent of employers in the Massachusetts construction industry classify their workers as independent contractors—a designation that reduces payroll taxes and allows companies to avoid providing mandated benefits, according to a report authored by a Harvard research center...