“Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!” HumansFactsStoriesTodayAmericaCultureStrongSportsSidesSimpleBoysRichGrowingPerspectiveHeroPeriodsProfoundPaintInternationalDetailsObsessedBiographiesParallelsAnecdotesCelebrity Culture Author:Nigel Hamilton
“It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.” IfsWantNeedsGivingCountryChanceTechnologyProductsIndustryPeriodsGiving UpPaidCompetitionInternationalProtectionProducersTake TimeCheaperNew TechnologyImportsIt Takes Time Book:Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity Source: Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
“Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.” WarCertainAmountPeriodsDirectorsMembersEuropeInternationalBoardsCommerceChamberBankersBoard Of DirectorsChamber Of Commerce Author:W. Averell Harriman
“It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership for Iraq in the future. There may be some transition period where the international community would have to help the Iraqi people put in place a representative government. But that is the goal, not for the United States, or any other nation, for that matter, who might be in such a coalition, if one is formed, to serve as the leader of the Iraqi nation.” PeopleIfsMayMatterStatesHelpingGovernmentMightDesireNationsGoalCommunityUnitedLeaderUnited StatesPeriodsInternationalIraqTransitionRepresentativesCoalitionsInternational CommunityRepresentative Government Author:Colin Powell
“I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from within the West by nationalists, by nativists, and by people who doubt our - doubt the values of the West. We've gone through periods like this before; in the '70s, after Vietnam and Watergate, and certainly in the '30s, when people thought liberal democracy was dead, and the future belonged either to the fascists or the communists.” PeopleBelieveValuesOrderI BelieveGoneDemocracyDoubtPeriodsWestInternationalRussiaCommunistVietnamRegimesAssaultFascistsWatergateLiberal Democracy Author:Daniel Fried