It’s a strange experience reading a book that begins with repeated salvos about “the intellectually lazy” by an author who refuses to think through anything very hard himself.
For the past 30 years firms have focused on their core business and contracted out everything else to specialists. Now, a growing number of companies are having second thoughts
Texas Republican Randy Weber attacks the President for not attending the march in Paris: "Even Adolph Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris. (For all the wrong reasons.) Obama couldn't do it for right reasons." This isn’t Weber’s first tasteless salvo. Last January, just before the 2014 State of the Union, Weber posted: "On floor of house waitin on "Kommandant-In-Chef"... the Socialistic dictator who's been feeding US a line or is it 'A-Lying?'"
There’s a history of pups using wheelchairs to gain a new lease on life.
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Despite these draws, Mr. Gagliardi isn’t the only one with a stake in his new museum and festival. Gabriella Ferranti, the town’s mayor, made no bones about feeling that Chianciano was going to receive a new lease on life in her reception speech at the museum’s opening. “Gagliardi’s fortune is our own fortune as well,” she said.
Tariff on Tires to Cost Consumers
Consumers
who buy low-price Chinese tires will be hit hardest by the new tariff,
as shortages in this market segment cause retailers to find alternative
sources in other countries.
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Dependence on protection by tariffs and laws to "buy American" only encourages incompetence. It would be incorrect to leave the reader with the impression ...
World leaders have spoken out against rising protectionism, blamed for sparking global trade wars in the 1930s that deepened and prolonged the Great Depression. But worldwide, domestic pressure is intense to protect jobs, and each time one country takes action, it makes it a little easier for the next. A case in point: After "Buy American" provisions won support in the United States as part of the $787 billion stimulus package, Indonesian authorities fired their own salvo. They ordered all civil servants in Southeast Asia's largest economy to consume food, clothing, shoes and other products made only in Indonesia.
Buy American 買美國貨
salvo
Pronunciation: /ˈsalvəʊ /
NOUN ( plural salvos or salvoes)
1.2A sudden, vigorous, or aggressive act or series of acts:the pardons provoked a salvo of accusations
tariff
n.
- A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.
- A duty or duties so imposed.
- A schedule of prices or fees.
To fix a duty or price on.
[Italian tariffa, from Old Italian, from Arabic ta‘rīf, notification, infinitive of ‘arrafa, to announce.]
a new lease of life UK (US a new lease on life)
1 when you become more energetic and active than before:
His grandchildren have given him a new lease of life.
2 an increase in the period for which something can be used or continued:
The project suddenly got a new lease of life when the developers agreed to provide some more funding.
swag
Syllabification: swag
Pronunciation: /swag/
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