The floods and fires that swept through our city left a path of destruction that will require years of recovery and rebuilding work.

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Contrary to what you hear from a dying traditional media, job destruction driven by technological advancement is the path to more specialized work, and with specialization, higher wages.

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But this work makes it clear that broken families, and the violence and destruction that love can wreak, continue to be his abiding themes.

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America is better at creative destruction, but it invests too little in ways to help the unemployed back to work.

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It has to be said that Mark Oliphant and his like-minded colleagues seemed to be content to work on the bomb, knowing that it would be capable of mass destruction.

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President Obama welcomed these developments while acknowledging that much work still remains to be done to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery in the region.

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Put simply, the mass destruction of farming jobs allowed for the redirection of precious human capital toward more productive, higher value work.

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