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“I am not a big fan of public-private partnerships” says Gary Corbett, acting President of PIPSC, one of the largest public sector unions in the country.  He believes this type of unequal partnership is sometimes ineffective because the ultimate responsibility  for the work remains with the government.
He cites the example of a road contructed under a  public-private [...]

There  is only one solution for AIG’’s problems - nationalize the company and let the government take  full control. How hard can it be to run an insurance company profitably? It is definitely not rocket science.
Throughout the world, insurance companies make good profits - it is a fail-safe business. Essentially, they just sell insurance; if there [...]

 
Diet fads come and go. Over the years,  North Americans have experimented with scores of diets and yet they remain unhealthy and obese. People switch from one diet to another and stay exactly the same.
However, there is one diet that has stood the test of time - the Yoga Diet. It has been around for [...]

 
Media coverage of the current economic crisis has been profoundly negative. The media is supposed to cover the facts - which it does quite well. In addition, it covers opinions that simply add to the prevailing doom and gloom.
Just look at the media pundits on the news channels. They are wrong most of the time [...]

By Niraj Chandra
Creating a good website is very simple - as I found out the hard way after weeks of tireless experimentation. Hopefully, this article will help others in creating their websites without going through my learning curve.
Just a few months I was an absolute novice. I was a good writer so I figured there would’nt be much [...]

The Allergists voted to scratch it, and the Dermatologists advised not
to make any rash moves.
 
The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the
Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve, and the Obstetricians felt they were all laboring under a misconception.
The Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted.
The Pathologists yelled, ‘Over my dead [...]

My water heater broke down after 17 years of flawless service - and that is when I discovered I had shelled out  two and a half times its value in rent, not counting the interest!
As a matter of fact I did’nt even know the heater was a rental; this fact was conveniently disguised in the utility [...]