...I said: The safety engineer I spoke two was not aware of any history of body "spoke two"? Sigh; I am regularly surprised by my improving ability to type major errors more and more frequently. If only I could market the skill... Anyhow, I asked about the type of failures [longitudinal vs circumferential] but she had no ready data. From what I've seen posted, SC[U]BA tank failures are of two basic types. The most common involves a...

> I mean by this, exactly how *real* is any of this crap that goes on in any stock market in the world? Aren't you seeing how very, very real it is - in some cases painfully real - right now? We're seeing how the ... taxpayer money via regressive stagflation to make it as painless as possible for the rich. They'll do _anything_ rather than admit that free speech is a precondition of a free market economy. Bret Cahill

..., Yili and Bright Dairy in total had more than 60 per cent market share in 2007,” Lei Chen, a UBS dairy analyst, said in a ... Henan province, Mr Fu fed his son Sanlu milk powder, the down-market brand first identified as tainted. Hundreds of other parents at Shanghai Children’s... and enforce stricter testing requirements,” said Matthew Crabbe of Access Asia, a market research firm in Shanghai. But with the vast majority of raw milk coming...

... recall. Instead, in an unpublicised recall, powder was withdrawn from shops. Fonterra has defended its decision to keep its information under wraps for so long. “If you don’t follow the rules of an individual market place then I think you are getting irresponsible”, says the company’s chief executive, Andrew Ferrier. Eventually, on September 11th, Sanlu announced a nationwide recall of 700 tonnes of powder. Two days later the Ministry ...

...us sweeping authority to have taxpayers buy up worthless assets from banks, have the government hold the securities until financial markets return to normal, and then gradually sell them back and see what the government can recover. But the worst possible result would be for financial markets to return to "normal" -- if normal means the speculative casino of the past decade, abetted by figures like Paulson....

... point out the exaggerations and criticize them, then let the voters decide. When McCain says, for example, that Barack Obama favors a government-run health-care system, he's not telling the truth -- Obama wants a market-based system subsidized by the government -- but McCain's untruth illuminates a general policy direction, which is sketchy but sort of within the bounds. (Obama's plan would increase government regulation of the drug and ...

... an ardent supporter of the deregulation, but Rubin and the Clintonites were certainly up to their eyeballs in pushing legislation gutting so many of the regulations designed to bring accountability to our complex free market system. These bills included the the Financial Modernization Act, which obliterated Glass-Steagall; and the Commodity Futures Modernization act, which gave us unregulated trading of derivatives and the kind of credit ...

... And it's something that we haven't had to talk about for 30 years, but it is the term that sent shivers down the spine of anybody involved in politics. What is stagflation? Stagflation is the worst possible outcome in market economics. Energy prices go up, and when they go up, they push up all prices, because it takes energy to make everything. But there's a particularly pernicious effect on energy prices going up. It's that the prices ...

...We do it for psychological reasons," says Adam Hutchinson, director of recharge operations for the water district. "In the future, people will laugh at us for putting it back in, instead of just drinking it." Psychologists and marketers have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what makes a product, or a process, seem natural. Obviously, framing the issue properly is the key to acceptance. "If people connect the history of their water...

...speech on economic issues? I still have no idea what you mean by "free speech on economic issues" Does the term "informed market decisions" ring a bell? After all the "invisible hand" of free markets is little more than free speech on economic issues. Anyway, if you openly admit you're ignorant of plain English then you ain'...