On the one
hand:
Reuters: World military spending tops $1 Trillion in 2004;
US
leads the pack. World military spending rose
for a sixth year running in 2004, growing by 5 percent to $1.04 trillion on the
back of "massive" U.S. budgetary allocations for its war on terror. With
seems appropriate for current discussions.
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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--oligopsony
oligopsony (oli-GOP-suh-nee) noun
The market condition where a few buyers
Even after lowering recruitment standards,
Army falls short of May goals http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08recruit.html?
Good thing theyre working on robots, eh?
On the one hand:
Reuters: World military spending
tops $1 Trillion in 2004; US
leads the pack. World
As in coffee
growing in Costa Rica. Lot's of small farmers growing it and selling to
about five or six ogopsonistic buyers who had total control over
price.
Ed
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In installment 10 of the NYT series Class Matters, a literary tour.
CLASS MATTERS: In Fiction, a Long History of Fixation on
the Social Gap
By Charles McGrath,
NYT, Wednesday, June 08, 2005
On
television and in the movies now, and even in the pages of novels, people tend
to dwell
