Prominent economists have drawn an eerie parallel between today's events and those of the early 1930s when, as the world limped in the aftermath of the 1929 Wall Street crash, a banking crisis in Europe took the world economy into another downward spiral and led to an explosion of extremist politics that, ultimately, set the pathway to World War II.
Once there, firefighters have to plug their engine into a fire hydrant--the equivalent of a wall jack in the information world.
If his dream was to live in the woods, with a fireplace and a typewriter and sheaves of notes hooked on the wall, almost like a deaf-mute in his dealings with the world, that was his affair.
The bright red PlugBug World is easy to spot in a sea of white adapters in your bag or on the wall at the airport.
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From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
Once upon a time, Wall Street lived in the real world, where economic fundamentals prevailed over wishful thinking.
In his parable, prisoners are chained in a cave and only perceive the world as shadows on the wall.
She shared the story of her own career, starting at CNN and then on to CNBC to build a successful career at the forefront of the developments in the world economy and on Wall Street.
The hybrid was sitting right next to the 2, 560 x 1, 440 Series 9 prototype we recently scoped out and in front of a wall of concepts that explore the brave new world of elastic form factors to their fullest.
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Goffin, who told the crowd after the match that he had pictures of Federer on his wall as a child, was ranked 109th in the world when the clay-court tournament started but he will be up to 68th when it ends next Sunday.
But the crisis is as much the result of policy mistakes in a fast-changing and unbalanced world economy as of Wall Street's greedy innovations.
The son of a candy store owner in Rochester, New York, and a graduate of Harvard Business School, his path in the solid, tradition-bound world of Wall Street seemed clearly marked.
With Ms. Orihara giving a subtly driven performance in the role originated by Graham, and formidable Ben Schultz as an insistent, menacing figure, "Errand" in its new, spare look now intriguingly suggests the rarefied world of a restored Egyptian wall painting.
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Wall Street was caught up in a "mania that prevailed throughout the investment world, " he said.
Trainees see and hear the virtual world from their own point of view, whether peering out from behind a wall or approaching the scene in a helicopter.
In 2001, he was caught up in the 11 September terrorist attacks in New York, witnessing the destruction during a visit to Wall Street 200 yards from the World Trade Center.
But a select few will see the writing on the wall and transform themselves from within, so they can stay relevant in a new world where education is a freely traded commodity subject to the same pricing, supply and demand constraints as every other commodity on planet earth.
We live in a complex world, and this set of events is a huge disgrace for Wall Street and much of the financial industry.
At the end of October, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wolfowitz had pressed reluctant World Bank staffers to establish a permanent office in Baghdad.
He flew planes for the Navy in World War II, then worked his way up the Wall Street ladder, first as a securities analyst, then as a money manager.
At one of Gore's main rivals, Associated Air Center in Dallas, the company keeps track of its sales with little flags stuck into a wall-size world map outside its sales office.
For Goldman Sachs, the world is going to hell in a hand basket, according to a report they wrote for hedge fund clients obtained by the Wall Street Journal last month.
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