Until now, Beijing had come down resolutely on the side of boosting employment. It had shifted a massive amount of resources, mainly through the banking system, into new investment in infrastructure and new production facilities. This created jobs and boosted consumption, but it did so by expandi...
Between January and March of this year, the U.S. economy slowed to a crawl — a measly 1.8 percent annualized growth — down from over 3 percent last fall. Higher gas and food prices are putting even more of a squeeze on American households. And housing prices continue to drop. Washingto...
Why did Operation Barbarossa fail? The Russian Invasion Operation Barbarossa was the largest-scale conflict in World War II, a plan by Nazi Germany to invade and defeat the Soviet Union in order to knock out a potential enemy and gain resources and territory for the German people, starting in...
" Bowie recalled in 2003. "Of course, I was overjoyed that they did. Obviously some BBC official said, 'Oh, right then, that space song, Major Tom, blah blah blah, that'll be great.' 'Um, but he gets stranded in space, sir.' Nobody had the heart to tell the producer that [...
There's a thrill in hunting,an excitement that comes over you when a deer crashes out of the bush.You are waiting for him with death.After hunting,you also feel great.There's the bit of showing off with the boys—the fine horns of the deer hung high upon the ...
ZDNet:Looking back to the early days of the Internet's development, did you think, way back then, that someday there would be what you're describing as this kind of impromptu experiment where something dramatically changes, and suddenly all th...
My refund did end up being a grand total of £9, and one friend got back £17 - but another did get back several hundred pounds. Regardless, the effort versus reward for this one is very easy - a £9 button click is still pretty good going. ...
We would chat for hours, sometimes while I hid under my blanket in order to avoid the chance of being caught by my parents. I could even memorize the phone numbers of loved ones then. While I did own an address book—and there was always the White Pages, where yo...
The fall of the Nazi regime was already certain, but what we did not know was how or when. Certainly the non-fanatics in the German high command were preparing for the moment, imagining an armistice something like the one that had ended the previous world war. How might they maintain some...