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...also worries that by making state-owned enterprises a priority for stimulus efforts, the government could undermine the productivity gains made by China's increasingly competitive private sector. He says that it is "quite likely that productivity growth will completely disappear this year ... then all you have is this brute-force investment growth which always leads to a crash...
...think we can learn that we should stop being reflexively opposed when someone else does [decriminalize] and should take seriously the possibility that anti-user enforcement isn't having much influence on our drug consumption," says Mark Kleiman, author of the forthcoming When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment and director of the drug policy analysis program at UCLA. Kleiman does not consider Portugal a realistic model for the U.S., however, because of differences in size and culture between the two countries...
...freed of their bondage to the show, or the sweet idiocy of their youth. We don’t want to wish them disaster, but we know that the series will end if things go too well, and then we’ll be up against the brute flank of a new Monday.There could always be one more episode, we think, like there could always be one more year between this one and the next. The divorce will never occur and I’ll be able to stay hungover and barefoot the rest of my life, never impelled...
Just don't imagine that you can prevail by brute force. You can block websites, limit time online, screen e-mail, unplug the webcam. But kids are more nimble than wise; they will find a work-around. Teachers know that students can text under the desk without glancing down, their phones set with a ringtone pitched too high for adults to hear. We are fighting on their turf. They are up in the trees and underground and in caves while we march around in our bright red uniforms trying to defend their dignity and virtue. Not a fair fight...
...country, who took home the 2008 NCAA championship for 157-pounders. It is because of O’Connor’s stellar performance this season that Leen sits one position below him in the rankings. O’Connor defeated Leen this past November at the Binghamton Brute Open, just miles from his hometown. While O’Connor’s 7-5 overtime victory over the defending national champion was one of the best of his life, he described it quite humbly and simply: “really close match.” O’Connor...