Indra maps out a high-tech route to poll position:
The Spanish IT group has spotted an opportunity from last year's electoral
chaos in Florida, writes Leslie
Crawford:
Financial Times, Feb 20, 2001
By LESLIE CRAWFORD
Last year's presidential election confusion in the US was good news for
G'day all,
I see the best-cities-to-live-in poll for the year is out. If memory serves,
Vancouver came top and the likes of Vienna, Geneva and Sydney were runners up
(my favourites, Melbourne and Amsterdam did well, too - and if these gits had
bothered to visit Hobart' Oz would have had the
Rob wrote:
I see the best-cities-to-live-in poll for the year is out. If memory
serves, Vancouver came top . . .
And here I was thinking how glad I am to be out of Vancouver. The problem
with being one of the "best cities to live in" is housing costs go up
correspondingly. Thus it becomes
The economy
Hard luck, hard landing?
Feb 22nd 2001 | NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, DC
(www.economist.com)
America has been promised a soft landing. Consider an alternative
"DO YOU think we are going to have a recession?" The questioner is a
stranger, clad in an elegant fur coat, in a lift on
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
Should corporate-led institutions be reformed or disempowered?
It's not off the wall to think of dismantling corporations
[Part II of The most crucial task facing the world's NGOs]
by Waldon Bello
The CCPA Monitor, February 2001, pp 14-16
The battle against
I think it's possible that the US won't suffer a recession during 2001.
Recessions are "officially defined" by the unofficial NBER as involving "at
least two quarters of falling GDP." But this is a capitalist definition of
recession, measuring the recession by looking at an index of market
fwd:
This e-mail chronicles the exchange between the Nike Company and the
proud owner of a new pair of Nikes. SWOOSH!!!
I hope you enjoy it
Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or
phrase which they will stitch onto your
Reviving a "Poor People's Movement" is one of the campaigns that I
think American leftists -- especially leftists in Ohio -- should be
working on. The following article says "Ohio had one of the steepest
declines in food stamp participationLast year, [only] 59 percent
[of the eligible
Hardial is dead. The party is now headed by a woman.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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Who is
Regulation of business is bad and inefficient , but regulation of the poor
is good and prevents fraud. Hmm... Strange that a country so attached to the
idea that bureaucracy and regulation stifles freedom and is inefficient
nevertheless lauds regulation and demands an army of enforcers to prevent
A grain of salt WRT the last item: hospitals have been deliberately reducing
their nursing staffs for years. The reason people are in the hospital in
the first place is that they need nursing care. With this reduction in
nursing staffs, the future is that the patients will have to hire their
Worth checking out http://www.gorewonflorida.org to see the numbers from the
statewide recounts by the consoritum of news organizations recounting
ballots statewide. By the standard of where votes were "reasonably clear",
Gore won by 29,756 votes. And by the narrower standard of where the vote
we economists _love_ graphs.
At 02:56 PM 2/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
Worth checking out http://www.gorewonflorida.org to see the numbers from the
statewide recounts by the consoritum of news organizations recounting
ballots statewide. By the standard of where votes were "reasonably clear",
Gore
Part time nurses under temporary contracts are doing quite well, although
hospitals are downgrading many traditional nursing jobs to have
non-professionals take over.
--
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California State University
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530-898-5321
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So how to reconcile with:
"Story Filed: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:12 PM EST
MIAMI (AP) -- A media-sponsored recount of 10,644 uncounted ballots in
Miami-Dade County found a gain of only 49 votes for Al Gore, suggesting
he would not
have picked up enough votes to win the presidential race.
The Forklift Of The Kim Dae-Jung Government Stabbed
Daewoo Autoworkers In The Heart.
Korean Metal Workers Federation
Metal Workers KMWF-KCTU
February 21, 2001
02/19/01
At around 17:50 yesterday two choppers were hovering around the sky of the
Daewoo Pupyong plants and hundreds of riot
Rob, your suggestion about livability and public services is very
interesting. I would like to see it integrated with the contradiction
that many of the major cities would love to be able to exclude the poor
from them altogether -- except that they need people to do the menial
chores.
On Tue,
Anthony Sampson, "Empires of the Sky" (Random House, 1984):
However commercially adventurous the international airlines, they could not
ignore their dependence on Washington. The legendary influence of Pan Am
continued to excite its political opponents, and in 1956 the tough old nut
Emmanuel
Thomas Petzinger, Jr., "Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and
Profits that Plunged the Airlines into Chaos" (Random House, 1995)
As a crusader for regulatory reform, Bakes [Phil Bakes, an
ex-"hippie-radical" who had become a government lawyer working side-by-side
with Stephen Breyer] felt
As it happens I am doing something very similar, as part of an effort to
figure out why personal income _inequality_ is strongly (negatively)
related to (age-adjusted) mortality rates in US cities, but not in Canadian
cities. In other words, do more -- and more equal -- public goods in
Richard Titmuss on blood donations might be useful. Also, his work on the
mitigation of social costs in Britain during WW 2.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:58:29PM -0800, Bill Burgess wrote:
As it happens I am doing something very similar, as part of an effort to
figure out why personal income
[Advanced in the name of free-market ideology, deregulation keeps ending up
as a mechanism for insiders to make super-profits at the expense mostly of
the working class. When word gets out about the latest rip-off in the name
of deregulation, the bourgeois press takes the position that the
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Pacific) of gender
from SLATE:
USA [TODAY] describes its Florida vote findings as "a blow to Democratic
claims that Gore would have won the election if a hand recount had
occurred." But: 1) the paper waits until the very end of its Page 3
follow-up to report that its study also discovered that in Miami-Dade,
Some nursing jobs have been taken over by Physicians' Assistants, who are
basically low-paid MDs.
At 12:17 PM 2/26/01 -0800, you wrote:
Part time nurses under temporary contracts are doing quite well, although
hospitals are downgrading many traditional nursing jobs to have
non-professionals
G'day Tom,
And here I was thinking how glad I am to be out of Vancouver. Theproblem with
being one of the "best cities to live in" is housing costs go up
correspondingly. Thus it becomes impossible to do the living that is best in the
city. That is to say one could live better in
Does anybody know anything about this article?
Hoxby, Caroline M. 2000. "The Effects of Class Size on Student
Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation." Journal of
Economics, 115: 4 (November): pp. 1239-85.
She argues that class size does not have much of an effect on
student
I appreciate the spirit behind Bello's piece (as exerpted here), but, stripped to
its elements, it strikes me as much too reformist. It hearkens back to the pre-1982
dispensation as a sort-of golden age, and it presents as its agenda all those
progressive things that governments were supposed to
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:17:58 -0500
From: "Riad" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fw: Chomsky@Toledo
I'm passing this on from a student of mine:
Here is the information on Noam Chomsky's visit to Toledo
University. It may seem like a bit out of the way, but he is such
an
Me, I would begin talking about concrete steps to socialize (which is not
necessarily to put under public ownership) corporations national and
transnational,
and to craft a set of rules and governing procedures to make
possible trade without
the lash of global competitiveness that has poisoned
Marxists would be free to study and write about M-C-M'.
Peter
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
All that without abolishing M-C-M'?
Yoshie
Marxists would be free to study and write about M-C-M'.
Peter
Seriously, Peter, you criticize Bello for being "much too reformist,"
but your program -- "to socialize (which is not necessarily to put
under public ownership) corporations national and transnational, and
to craft a set of rules
Marxists would be free to study and write about M-C-M'.
Peter
Seriously, Peter, you criticize Bello for being "much too reformist,"
but your program -- "to socialize (which is not necessarily to put
under public ownership) corporations national and transnational, and
to craft a set of
Fair enough, but I have more humor at the moment than time. The funny
thing is that I've been studying and thinking about these questions for
over 20 years and have written next to nothing. (2 - 1/2 very obscure
articles.) I promise that, if I ever get some time off, I'll give your
challenge
New York Times 27 February 2001
Bitter Strike at Domino Sugar Finally Ends
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Strikers at the mammoth Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn agreed
yesterday to return to work, ending the city's longest labor battle
in what even union leaders acknowledged was a stinging loss.
Ian says:
So what's your meta-reformist plan to get us beyond M-C-M' Yoshie?
First of all, I think we (in the USA) have to get more serious about
reform struggles at local national levels. When we have no power
base, no mass movement in this country (USA), we can't "craft a set
of rules
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,443449,00.html
Goodbye to globalisation
America's new focus means greater realism and honesty for the rest of us
Special report: globalisation
John Gray
Tuesday February 27, 2001
The Guardian
George Bush and Tony Blair sent out a reassuring
Michael P. wrote:
Rob, your suggestion about livability and public services is very
interesting. I would like to see it integrated with the contradiction
that many of the major cities would love to be able to exclude the poor
from them altogether -- except that they need people to do the menial
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