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...Tharoor points out, even during Nehru's own lifetime, his halo began to fade. His concentration on industrialization, rather than reforming the primitive agricultural sector, led to food shortages by the late 1950s. The state-controlled economy bred corruption and stagnation. Kashmir was another growing problem; as Tharoor notes, most Indian commentators blame Nehru for his decision to take the Kashmir dispute to the United Nations, thereby turning it from a domestic matter into an international issue. (Tharoor's day job is as an under secretary-general of the U.N.) Then, in 1962, the Chinese invaded India-a crushing humiliation...
Larger issues important to all Americans have particular relevance to young people. The loss of over 3 million private-sector jobs, the recent rollbacks in environmental regulations, the erosion of our civil liberties, the mounting national debt and our diminished standing in the eyes of the world arguably impact young people more than any other generation. As president, I will work to reverse all of them...
...service sector is counterbalancing the anemic manufacturing segment. Professional, business and technical services keep adding jobs, as companies outsource work like network maintenance and advertising. Bush's tax cuts, as well as the mortgage-refinancing rush, put cash in consumers' pockets, leaving them with more to spend at restaurants and bars--where employment bloomed by 113,000 over the year...
Lack of commitment to permanent jobs by businesses has created one: temporary work. The temporary-help sector has added 150,000 jobs since April, and while 1.4 million people hold part-time jobs only because they were unable to find full-time work--up 27% from a year ago--the growth of temp jobs isn't altogether a bad thing. "It seems to have some predictive power for permanent employment growth," says Groshen. "Companies seem to experiment with the job itself or with the particular employee. Do we really need this job? Can this person really...
...rushing the fertilizer from Jordan and the southern port city of Basra are stalling on Iraq's rutted, cratered roads. What's at stake is more than just another failed growing season's crops, which include maize, wheat and barley. Agriculture is Iraq's second largest economic sector and largest employer. If farmers have no work, that might fuel recruitment into the ranks of Iraqis battling occupying troops. "The Army regards this as a security issue," says the Agriculture Department official, who just returned from Iraq and is worried that the country's farmers might take to the streets...