After ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal
... who question the scale of our ambitions—who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans." After this week's change of political fortune, the best option is to shelve the ambitions and the big plans, and the first step is ...
HARD BRAWLING OGRES
Daily Mirror
I would have expected Khan to make the step at some point ... As I am learning myself, you hope that the fighter remembers the scale of investment required at the beginning when they start making the big numbers later. Khan is an attraction...
Paul Krugman: Stop whining, Democrats
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Some are urging Democrats to scale back their proposals in the hope of gaining Republican support ... Yet it has faced lock-step opposition from the GOP, which is determined to prevent Democrats from achieving any successes. Why would this ...
Lawson to Step Down at Fidelity
Wall Street Journal
The moves are designed to help the firm adjust to the scale of its bond business in the wake of its acquisition of Barclays Global Investors, Mr. Fisher said. That deal, which closed in December, boosted BlackRock's fixed-income assets unde...
Chronicles of Riddick Sequel Begins Location Scouting
Screen Rant
For those of you looking for the return of Vin Diesel as arguably his best on-screen character, Riddick, it looks like it’s one step closer to reality. On his Facebook page yesterday, Diesel put up an update which included a line revealing ...
Monsanto Confident in Operational Path to 2012 Financial Goals, Reflecting Focus on Delivering Step-Change New ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
It's all about the mix, Monsanto Company's Brett Begemann, executive vice president of Seeds & Traits, plans to tell investors at Citi's Basic Materials Symposium in New York today.
District of Columbia Council passes gay marriage bill
Los Angeles Times
The vote is the first of two needed to make such unions legal in the city. The District of Columbia Council took a major step Tuesday toward joining New Hampshire, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and Massachusetts in legalizing same-sex marriage...
John Prendergast: 5 myths about Darfur
Providence Journal
... independence of the south the following January — tripwires that could provoke a return to full-scale war. In Washington, meanwhile, few challenges have produced a greater chasm between words and deeds. A first step toward closing that ...
China Crop-Technology Shift May Narrow Yield Gap, Analysts Say
Bloomberg
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- China’s approval of genetically modified rice and corn brings the world’s biggest grain- producing nation a step closer to boosting yields that have lagged behind the U.S. as demand surged, analysts said.
Help Steps up, but So Does Scale of Haiti Tragedy
ABC News
In one step to reassure frustrated aid groups, the U.S. military agreed to give aid deliveries priority over military flights at the now-U.S.-run airport here, the WFP announced in Rome. The Americans' handling of civilian flights had anger...
A Weekend to Deal With Ifs, Ands and Buts
New York Times
Volcker , who wanted to scale back bank trading activities, was the odd man out among President Obama ’s advisers ... Bernanke were forced to step aside? Who would the Senate confirm? What promises might it extract from a new chairman, and ...
Strongest hurricanes may double in number
Boston Globe
Storms rated Category 4 or 5 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, with winds of at least 131 miles an hour, are those that are projected to increase in frequency. Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, was a Category 3 s...
Harvard Business School dean to retire in June
INO News
(AP:BOSTON) Harvard University has announced that Jay Light, the dean of its business school, will step down from the post next June. Light said on Wednesday that the decision to retire was not an easy one, but that the timing felt right.
