A Riot of Glorious Knowledge: October 2010

The budget and the election: The red ink war | The Economist: "For the first time since the budgeting process was overhauled in 1974, neither chamber has voted on a budget resolution—the overall spending plan that is then fleshed out in 12 appropriations bills.

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Saturday, 2 October 2010

Spin out - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Spin out - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A spin-out refers to a type of corporate action where a company 'splits off' sections of itself as a separate business.

The common definition of spin-out is when a division of a company or organization becomes an independent business. The 'spin-out' company takes assets, intellectual property, technology, and/or existing products from the parent organization.

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Stressed? 25 tips to help you - Sun Sentinel

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Business in India: A bumpier but freer road | The Economist

Business in India: A bumpier but freer road | The Economist: "Tariff ramparts have been torn down (see chart 3). The “licence raj”—a system under which it seemed that a businessman could not pick his teeth without a permit—has been swept aside.

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Business in India: A bumpier but freer road | The Economist

Business in India: A bumpier but freer road | The Economist: "economic reforms of the early 1990s have unleashed an explosion of pent-up commercial energy

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Business in India: A bumpier but freer road | The Economist

Business in India: A bumpier but freer road | The Economist: "India’s growth will start to outpace China’s within three to five years. China will rumble along at 8% rather than double digits; India will rack up successive years of 9-10%.

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Business in India: A bumpier but freer road | The Economist

Business in India: A bumpier but freer road | The Economist: "by analysing the way American hospitals carried out mundane tasks, such as bed-changing and deciding where to put doctors’ offices, it was able to point out more efficient ways of using people and equipment. As a result, doctors perform 25% more operations each day.

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Friday, 1 October 2010

Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist

Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist: "Mr Cardoso tamed Brazil’s persistent hyperinflation with the Real Plan. As president between 1995 and 2002, he put in place policies that have given the country stability and growth. “Lula inherited sensible macroeconomic policies and was clever enough to realise it

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Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist

Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist: "Bolsa Família programme, which gives 12m families small but life-changing amounts of cash in return for having their children vaccinated and keeping them in school.

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Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist

Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist: "After 25 years in which the country failed to maintain its infrastructure, let alone build any more, it is “reacquiring the capacity to carry out the grand infrastructure works that Brazil needs.

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Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist

Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist: "poorest begin to rise up to the lower-middle class and then to the middle-middle class,

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Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist

Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist: "personal magnetism have helped him to sell “brand Brazil” around the world: a coming power, a profitable place to invest and a tolerant democracy where a man like him could become president.

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Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist

Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist: "Median earnings are rising and, despite a minimum wage at its highest in real terms since 1979, so is employment.

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Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist

Brazil's presidential election: Lula's legacy | The Economist: "Last month allegations surfaced that people linked to Ms Guerra, including her sons, had extracted bribes in the form of retainers and success fees from businesses hoping to win government contracts. Ms Guerra was quickly defenestrated. No evidence implicating either the president or his candidate has come out.

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