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...distribution business to supply them. Getting in to see him is hard. A security guard wants to know whether we are American spies. Petrov's deputy, Viktor Denisov, nervously locks his office door when he crosses the corridor to see his boss. Petrov is deliberately cagey about business prospects. Yes, an economic crisis is now raging, "but this is not the first time we've had one," he says. Indeed, back in 1998, Denisov adds mysteriously, "it was a crisis that helped us move a step ahead." Business, both insist, has not been affected. But press Petrov on prospects...
...Yes, concrete. Not the cheap, gray, easily cracked soulless stuff that gave urbanization a bad name when it was slathered over Western cities in the 1960s, but newfangled, bright--and still relatively expensive--concrete that has come on to the market this decade. High-performance concrete (or ultra-high-performance, as it's known in the industry) is up to 10 times as strong as regular concrete. It costs several times as much as standard concrete, yet industry experts say price comparisons are misleading because the high-tech versions have properties that make them more comparable to materials such...
...Yes, I need it. I asked for the seven-second delay because we want everybody to remain relaxed on the set, and after that [incident], everybody was looking over their shoulder. Now, if anyone says something offensive, they can push the big red button. The Joe button...
Increasingly, the answer seems to be yes. That's the intriguing conclusion from a body of work by Harvard social scientist Dr. Nicholas Christakis and his political-science colleague James Fowler at the University of California at San Diego. The pair created a sensation with their announcement earlier this month of a 20-year study showing that emotions can pass among a network of people up to three degrees of separation away, so your joy may, to a larger extent than you realize, be determined by how cheerful your friends' friends' friends are, even if some of the people...
...become so dire that the real economy begins to surprise on the upside, and the way is cleared for recovery. In early October, pollsters commissioned by CNN, after describing the economic conditions of the Great Depression, asked respondents if a return to such misery was likely. Almost 60% said yes. And perhaps one of these months, be it in 2009 or 2010, these people might just be pleasantly surprised by the economy's performance - and start buying stuff again...