“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.” IfsHardHelpingForceHoursLinesPowerfulNormalPaidTownsCompetitionWorkersBottomStoresOfferingUnemploymentEmployersBottom LineRobust Author:Christina Romer
“The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.” UsedFightingForceNationsTownsIraqRadicalBordersIslamicAfghanistanSyriaEgyptExtremistArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisJihadLibyaGatewaysYemen Author:Richard Engel
“In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.” StillsGovernmentForceStruggleFourMonthsTownsIraqDesertThirtyWildernessDevicesMexicoSeptemberEasternLitFacilityBlastOaksExplosivesAcresTennesseeRidgesNew Mexico Author:George Will
“There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.” IfsWorldPersonsMovingLife IsEvilForceCan DoAmountTownsLuckScaryGood And EvilGood LuckLife Is LikeBad LuckRatiosStewScumStill Life With Woodpecker Book:Still Life with Woodpecker Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“You're in a rather odd mood today." I'm soaking wet, Eloise." No need to snap at me about it, I didn't force you to walk across town in the rain." It wasn't raining when I left,". There was something about a sibling that brought out the eight-year-old in a body. I'm sure the sky was gray," Clearly, she had a bit of the eight-year-old in her as well.” NeedsYearsWellsBodyTodayLeftForceBitsWalksSkyRainTownsEightMoodOddGrayWetSiblingSnapsSoakingEloise Author:Julia Quinn
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.” EarthPoliticalHumanityTurnsForceNatureLinesMoneyTelevisionDrugCapitalismGoldEssenceArmyTownsGreenLuxuryDesperateToxicTransformedCommodityBricksItemsMansionsArmed ForcesGreen EarthDemoralizedSlagLuxury Items Author:Michael Parenti
“She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood back now, not a good thing, no, because it meant he was almost finished, his brave heart almost done beating. Dekka looked up straight into the glittering eyes of a coyote. She could sense the others around her, closing in. Wary but sensing that a fresh meal was close at hand.” HeartDoneHandsEyeForceBloodTownsBraveGood ThingsBottomEdgesFinishedWoundsGhostSatMealsTrailsClosingCoyotesSensingBrave HeartGhost TownAlmost Done Author:Michael Grant