• Calls have grown louder for a new policy to legalise foreigners' status and welcome their badly-needed skills.

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  • It would also provide the cash for badly-needed improvements to the transport links between airports and city centres.

    ECONOMIST: Airports

  • Jassem Saadoun, a Kuwaiti economist, observes that in the past, higher oil revenues have reduced pressure on governments to push through badly-needed reforms.

    ECONOMIST: A high oil price will delay reforms

  • The disruption would mean cheques failing to arrive, hurting small businesses first, and people already short on cash having to wait longer for badly-needed giro cheques.

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  • However self-righteous, her campaigns added badly-needed credibility to Colombia's democracy.

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  • As for the badly-needed reserve for Afghanistan, even if sufficient British infantrymen could be found (maybe from Northern Ireland), helicopters, intelligence experts, engineers and logisticians would still be lacking.

    ECONOMIST: The armed forces

  • More than 840 South Koreans were set to cross the border Monday to Kaesong, which provides a badly-needed flow of hard currency to a country where many face food shortages, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry.

    NPR: SKorea, US Begin Drills As NKorea Threatens War

  • Estrada replaced Espiritu as finance secretary with the well-regarded Jose Pardo, who had held the trade and industry portfolio, named a six-man Economic Coordinating Council of top officials to bring badly-needed coherence and momentum to policy-making, and recruited five business elder statesmen as senior advisers.

    CNN: Act II for Estrada

  • "Airlines are among the people who're pushing for this now very badly-needed expansion, so that we don't continue to lose out against airports like Frankfurt and Charles de Gaulle, both of whom have twice as many destinations in China, twice as many flights going to China, " he said.

    BBC: Heathrow third runway rethink urged by Tory MP

  • But Carnival has little choice but to pay now and win some badly needed goodwill -- or pay later in the courtroom, in the court of public opinion, and, of course, at the cash register when bookings decline.

    CNN: How Carnival can clean up the PR mess

  • But if you tell parents in a neighbourhood that their children attend a school that is turning out badly-educated graduates without skills needed in the adult world, it sounds like an attack on their offspring.

    ECONOMIST: Fixing British education

  • While the Maestro's protestations won't eradicate the bear market from his legacy, they might--just might--trigger a badly needed debate on the proper role of the Federal Reserve and what guideposts it should use in conducting monetary policy.

    FORBES: How It Went Wrong--And How to Make It Right

  • "It is a tour de force and offers a new and potentially exciting opening for developments of new anti-obesity drugs -- something which is badly needed, " says Dr. George Bray, chief of the Division of Clinical Obesity and Metabolism at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • It could float long-term bonds to advance badly needed technology in equipment.

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  • This deal, which was presented like a marriage made in heaven with it was first announced in May, was to get the the money-losing, debt-laden baseball team some badly needed cash.

    FORBES: Mets Deal With Einhorn Delayed Further

  • Mr. Jackson, a pro-arena spokesman for Think BIG Sacramento, the sports consultancy pushing for a new venue for the Kings, accused Mr. Hansen of trying to "short-change our community of badly needed jobs" and challenged him to a public debate.

    WSJ: Sacramento Fights to Keep NBA Team

  • As many economists have pointed out, at this point in a weak recovery the government ought to be stimulating, as in spending to boost employment, and should save the belt-tightening, which indeed is badly needed, for when the conditions are less dire.

    FORBES: By Jeff Bailey

  • Fresh off unveiling its BlackBerry 10 operating system and two new phones, the company tried to keep its badly needed momentum going with a 30-second spot in which a guy uses the new BlackBerry Z10 to set himself on fire, grow elephant legs and magically turn an out-of-control big rig into an exploding pile of rubber duckies.

    CNN: Breaking down the Super Bowl tech ads

  • But if the leukotriene drugs can help heart patients even a little, it would provide a badly needed new option to counteract the artery-clogging Western lifestyle.

    FORBES: Health

  • They are preparing to move badly needed water, food, and other life-saving supplies to priority areas in Port-au-Prince.

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  • "It is estimated that, during the development phase, 2, 000 badly needed jobs will be created in the hard-pressed local construction industry, " a spokesperson said.

    BBC: Maze shrine fears are 'scaremongering garbage'

  • Higher capacity disks are certain, but it must have a good price-competitive position against CD-based products in order to produce a badly needed jolt in sales.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • For once, we believed that we would have what Hastings needed - and still needs - so badly, an infrastructure that would enhance people's lives and livelihoods, reduce environmental pollution and improve the health of those thousands of people who live on the A259 trunk road.

    BBC: Head to Head: The road-building debate

  • In recent weeks two badly needed laws, a bankruptcy law and a loan-guarantee law, were passed after months stuck in Congress.

    ECONOMIST: Mexican banks

  • He came along at just the moment when a shot of spiritual renewal was needed to mend New York's badly bruised self-confidence.

    WSJ: Insufferable or irrepressible, Koch inspired NYC

  • Nevertheless, there are several reasons to think that America's start-up engine will move into a higher gear, creating badly needed jobs.

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  • Consolidation among Japan's 100-odd banks (not counting the many credit unions) is badly needed.

    ECONOMIST: Bank reform in Japan

  • Now is precisely the time to enact incentive-oriented tax reductions that will keep the economy growing and provide badly needed relief for millions of struggling families.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Despite its high-profile venture capitalists, it never found the greater fool it so badly needed.

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  • Pity--FAA modernization isn't sexy, but it's needed badly now.

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