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This is a shame, but I personally had doubts about this chain several years ago. It was not hard to notice that even after the whole music industry shifted gears, Borders continued in its effort to sell CDs at $16.99 and higher. They would jack up their prices on DVDs and Audiobooks, and then give you coupons with your receipt to offset their higher prices. That too was obvious. Somebody hired uncreative, canned strategic marketing management dregs to come up with strategies that failed Read More
If you look at the concentration of atmospheric CO2 smotto in lifece the beginning of the earths history, you will see that it has gone from around 30% to less than 4/10 of one percent. Plant life developed when concentrations of CO2 were much higher than today.
You could easily interpret this long-term decline in CO2, if it continues, as a potential cause of extinction of most life on earth, since nearly all animal life depends on plants, which in turn, depend on CO2.
Perhaps we should Read More
Whether you agree with gun control or not, maybe you should consider giving Starbucks a break. I'm from MD and still remember when 3 Starbucks workers were massacred in DC in 1997.
And to correct some erroneous assumptions posted, Starbucks do get robbed. Why? Because they are so immensely popular, they have lots of cash on hand at times. The murderer told cops later he shot shot business the manager and two others because she wouldn't give him the keys to the safe. There was $10K in Read More
but there is a parallel between the aggregate value of the manufacturing workforce and any single executive manager or group of managers.
The union represents not a specific worker, but the aggregate of all workers. Without such representation, your analogy is quite correct - no individual worker is worth the time or effort for the company to negotiate with, and as such, no individual worker can exert any influence on his wages or working conditions. But a group of employees can be Read More
Conceptually I can agree. I will point out though that the stock of money is very different from the money supply. Given the extremely low velocity of money despite the relatively large stock of money, the actual money supply is still sub-normal. Chairman Bernanke has noted that there will be and is a requirement to take money from the system once the velocity comes back up. Note that most estimates suggest that a dollar value of something like $14 trillion simply disappeared from the Read More
No Nicole, I feel very good for them, knowing that they live in a time when more then any other time in hishow to live a happy lifery, they will have the means to overcome a catastrophe. I'm delighted that they won't have to move under a bridge or live in a tent somewhere wondering where their next meal will come from for the remainder of their lives. I'm also certain that some of them are very happy they won't have to pay off the mortgage they were upside down in.
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Correct on some counts but missing the core issue with Homosexuality in human beings.
It is an aberration without merit.
In Christian Theology, homosexuals should not become priests because they suffer from a deformity of their character and have a perverted their sexuality and indicate a greater proclivity to sin. Homosexuality is usually only one manifestation of a deformed conscience which usually involves excessive self love and sensuality. The Priest is meant to be another Christ. Read More
There is a universe of difference between evaluating the the overall performance of a highly skilled and talented professional baseball player and his fit in a baseball club's tactics, strategies and present fun team building activities for the workplace personalities and talent base and soothsaying what a particular player can or cannot do at a particular moment in time. Baseball has spawned more useless factoids or other extraneous observations about its players, teams and their imagined Read More
China has no intention of letting their currency float. The China trade philosophy is simple and effective. You export as much as you can and import only what you have to. China does not understand the concept of trade being mutually beneficial. So far they have been very effective in implementing change this philosophy and they don't intend to change it. They don't care what happens to their trading partners. If you look at the history of trade in the US you will see this same Read More
James lane:
The only way to destroy sanctuaries in Pakistan is to destroy Pakistan. a step US is not prepared to take. So, looks like US will not be able to withdraw from Afghanistan on terms acceptable to US; rather Taliban try to repeat the British defeat of 1842, when only one European soldier was able to reach India, 16000 others perished.
Regarding trading partnership with Japan and Korea, I say, yes, trade; but no defense of Korea and Japan. It will be cheaper to find some other Read More