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According to Meyer, HMC will likely outsource about half of its investments within a decade, although it’s not part of a “conscious decision...
...Greenspan is now six months from year's end, about when Wall Street keeps telling him businesses will get their investing legs back. Too much monetary fuel now, and the flames burn too hot - forcing image-conscious Big Al to have to raise rates back up again when he can be easily accused of throwing cold water on the first flickers of recovery. Remember, he's still sensitive about criticisms that he steepened the economy's fall with that 50-point hike...
...nations of sub-Saharan Africa is to stop the spread of a disease that threatens to drag the continent into anarchy. And where resources are already scarce, the unspoken choice may be to simply let the majority of those currently infected with HIV die. But that essentially implies a conscious choice by the world's wealthier nations to let some 30 million poor people die of a treatable disease rather than spend the money on keeping them alive. And that, presumably, is a choice with which the global citizenry won't feel entirely comfortable. At least not if Kofi Annan...
...print. If I hadn't read it, I don't think I would have made it--the book was that important--because it outlined a system of thought that was the absolute turning point in my life, in my attitude toward myself. Before it, I was so self-conscious and so underestimated myself that a dirty look would deter me. I didn't feel pretty, and though I was loaded with talent, I didn't realize any of it. My husband, to his credit, had been urging me to try comedy. On March 7, 1955, at 37, I debuted...
...Like his visits to the Sequoia National Park and the Everglades over the last two weeks, the Rose Garden speech was more concerned with making Bush look environmentally conscious than it was in offering a brave new approach to the issue of global warming. The park visits were cooked up months ago to "to solve the arsenic problem," as one senior White House aide put it. The "arsenic problem," was the first blow to the administration's environmental image after the White House announced a review of last-minute Clinton-imposed regulations on the level of arsenic in the drinking...