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Rising Domestic Terr |
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Americans are under siege by terrorists right now, but the primary source of the problem is not al Qaeda or any other foreign terrorist organization. The threat stems from home-grown activist groups with names like: the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front, and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. And it’s not just left-wing radicals who are causing the problems. Domestic terror threats include bombings by right-wing terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh and abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph. |
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Off-Shoring the Back |
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Let’s face it, there’s hardly a business topic that’s more emotionally charged than off-shoring: the new trend of outsourcing business processes to foreign workers. It is much cheaper to pay people in other countries to do this routine work because they are paid only a small fraction of the salaries that American workers receive. |
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인구 통계로 보는 강대국의 미래 |
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인구 통계학에 있느 추운 겨울은 이미 전 세계적인 현상이 되었다. 21세기의 경제, 사회, 정치적 위기는 대체로 인구 고령화와 감소, 그리고 전통적인 핵가족 소멸의 부산물이다. 이러한 트렌드를 주도하는 것은 무엇인가? 삶의 질에 그 의미는 무엇인가? 국가의 상대적 경쟁력에 그 의미는 무엇인가? |
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Newsmakers |
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| Francesco Marconi |
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Oil Speculators Fina |
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In March 2005, Goldman Sachs warned that the oil market was in the early stages of a “super spike,” and predicted that oil prices could soon rise to $105 a barrel.1 At the time, the price of a barrel of oil stood at $57. |
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