activists have worked overtime to keep the Wal-Marts and Safeways from opening in rural and urban areas; now we see that the real problem, according to activists, is that many rural and urban people do not have access to the inexpensive food that these markets sell. For those not aware of this rural areas are devoid of stores, but that that Wal-Mart is able to successfully open stores in rural communities and make money. The previous story about the small
Dec. 8, 2003 UK Independent on drug efficacy. It is now only available via paid access, so here are two passages (and a reprint ): For years, the drugs industry has false belief that all drugs will work on just about everybody...Yet it has been an open secret within the drugs industry that most drugs do not work for most patients,
to stem the tide of high-technology jobs flowing out of the country. “America is open for work,” said President George W. Bush. “Your elected representatives have crossed party lines to ensure that the American Dream remains accessible to all. By repealing the Law of Comparative Advantage and the Law of
in terms of market share, financial or economic barriers to entry, consumer access to information, and the availability of coverage to consumers. In other words, costs, but not necessarily prices. The regulations that this new law creates do open opportunities for abuse. The notion that market concentration and financial or
and it could eliminate the last legal barrier against giving Mexican trucks full access to American highways, by overturning a ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of extra transportation costs the current system imposes. Further, it would open Mexico up to efficient U.S. trucking firms, since they are now excluded from
card didn’t get any use. First timers are under the impression that, since the opening bids required are at appraised value, maybe the land can be had for near the parcels typically being sold inside of a minute’s time. Even a parcel with no access (auctioneer Mike McKee said “only helicopter people should bid”) sold for
National Review column. “For several years during the Reagan administration, I had access to many of our intelligence services’ most closely held secrets,” explains shoes and walked the streets of Moscow, or Leningrad, or Minsk with your eyes wide open --- it was obvious that the Soviet economy wasn’t growing at 3 percent. It
what would be the next step; it turned out that the next step was angioplasty, not open heart surgery, for which I am very grateful. Being an economist, I could not a college faculty member or an unemployed factory worker, one would have universal access to medical facilities; it would be the best combination of social justice and
capital markets, the moves pave the way for a resumption of Argentina’s access to Fund lending later this month, the impetus for the apparent quid pro quo . U.S. courts froze Argentine assets in Maryland and inside the Beltway, at least opening the door for lender confiscation. But as Thomas Griesa, one of the judges
power that had overwhelmed Nazi Germany. Both degrees, I was convinced, would open all doors in Germany. I had my eyes on politics which I planned to enter after a (1857–1914) whose three-volume masterpiece , Capital and Interest , was accessible only to German readers. It needed a translator and publisher who would
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