Google TV, Roku, XBox, BluRay, even direct PC connections make the jump technologically easy.

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The mayors say that investing in their metropolitan economies is the most direct path to create jobs and jump-start the economy.

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The snag with ready-reckoners is that they look only at the direct impact and ignore the possible effects of a jump in oil prices on consumer and business sentiment or on share prices.

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Therefore, to jump start the economy, the government had to rely on foreign direct investment and exports to bring capital and hard currency into the country, and as the economy developed, it had to use government spending to build infrastructure and further fuel growth.

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