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...production isn't the only problem. The Pentagon's plans assumed that Iraq's industrial base and utilities were in working order. Instead, they're in a sorry state. And without basic utilities, factories aren't generating very much of anything--including badly needed jobs that would help win hearts and minds. The new Electricity Minister, Ayham al-Samaraie, estimates it will cost $18 billion just to fix the power grid...
...looking at much more modest growth. As the subscriber pool diminishes, BSkyB is under increasing pressure to extract more revenue from each user. Yet the percentage of viewers signing up for the pricey $61-per-month premium service is in slow decline relative to those committing to the $19 basic service. BSkyB hopes to offset this in part by pushing its high end Sky+ service, in which it sells a TiVo-like "personal video recorder" for $322 to subscribers. But sales of Sky+ have crawled along. There are other threats, too. BSkyB lacks the technological goods to deliver what soothsayers...
Unlike nearly every other elite university in U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2004,” Harvard does not offer what has become a basic amenity for most college students: cable television. In fact, of the top 15 schools in the nation, according to U.S. News, the University of Chicago (certainly the social pride of the Windy City) is the only other institution that does not offer cable to its students. And Harvard is the only school in the Ivy League that does not include cable...
Marglin said the course—originally proposed as an alternative to the first semester of Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics” (Ec 10)—is also intended to introduce basic economic principles...
After traditional schooling in economics at Harvard in the 1960s, he said, an experience teaching economics in India compelled him to question the basic capitalist principles he had learned...