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...declining unemployment. Yuji Shimanaka, chief economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting in Tokyo, says Japan is now in "a golden cycle." So, for now, is much of the world. "It comes down to very simple macroeconomics," says Subir Gokam, an economist at CRISIL, India's largest credit-rating firm. "The global economy is growing without much inflationary pressure...
...million Value of U.S. insurance firm AIG's sponsorship deal with soccer club Manchester United, to have its logo appear on team jerseys for the next four years $8.5 billion Amount spent by fans in the five biggest European markets on soccer shirts and merchandise in the past year...
...providing a greater understanding of the issues, such experiences can be helpful in determining and balancing priorities. Politics is a business where compromise is essential and unavoidable, and those who pursue it must be tethered to a sense of pragmatism in deciding when to compromise and when to stand firm. A worldview based mainly on an academic or secondary understanding of politics may lead to a set of beliefs that, like a house of cards, will blow over when an assumption is challenged, when funding for one program must be balanced against funding for another, or when an attractive...
...democratizing the Middle East. "Look, I'm pleased with the progress," he said. "I was reading the other day where Kuwaiti women are running for office. It's a positive sign, you know? We've got to be realistic about what's possible, but we've got to be firm in our belief that freedom is possible and necessary." Bush was referring to a local election last week in which Kuwait allowed women to vote for the first time, following passage of a government-sponsored suffrage bill last May. Female candidates lost in the municipal race, but women have announced...
...firm's requirement of a high school diploma is as much about a mind-set as it is about a skill-set, says Claxton. A diploma "shows that these applicants had the discipline to gut out a tough process," he says. "They learned how to get along with people, some of whom they may not have liked so well, in order to achieve their goals." A GED, he says, doesn't prove they can do that...