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'Recovery'? Rhetoric vs. Reality
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We are at a loss for words. If nothing else, this baffling economy
has defeated the vocabulary of economics. We are supposed to be in a
"recovery," but it doesn't feel like one. As of Friday the stock
market was down 25 percent this year and had lost $3.2 trillion in
value, reports Wilshire Associates. The weekly initial claims for
unemployment insurance, after receding earlier this year, have
climbed again above 400,000. Consumer confidence has declined for
four consecutive months.
Our language seems increasingly disconnected from ordinary life.
The standard phases of the business cycle ...
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Don Porfirio, Nemesio García Naranjo y Nostradamus.(TT: Don Porfirio, Nemesio Garcia Naranjo and Nostradamus.)
Magazine article from: Proceso
; ...ante la persecucin contra el filsofo francs Claude Adrien Helvetius. En De l'esprit Helvetius afirm que no existen vicios ni virtudes...fue quemado por mano de verdugo y se envi a Helvetius al exilio. Voltaire se limit a decir...
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Q & A on the news.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...G. Tallentyre's summary of his attitude toward Claude Adrien Helvetius after the condemnation and burning by the French Parliament of Helvetius' book "De l'Esprit" in 1759.
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Enclosed in quotation marks, it was said to have been from a letter written by Voltaire to another writer, Claude Adrien Helvetius. The expression was so striking that it was widely quoted as Voltaire's own. But when a careful search of...
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Some conservatives back Obama.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...nation, and calls talk about such dangers "the politics of fear." Back in the 18th century, philosopher Claude- Adrien Helvetius said, "When I speak, I put on a mask. When I act, I am forced to take it off." Too many voters still have...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Births: Claude Adrien Helvetius, philosopher and encyclopaedist, 1715; Charles XIV, King of Sweden, 1763; Ugo (Niccolo) Foscolo, poet, 1778; Gustav...
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Education means many things to many people. (for the people).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; ...difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave." But it was the French 18th-century thinker Claude-Adrien Helvetius, who summed up what education does most succinctly: "Education made us what we are."
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