Before Chinese individuals and companies could begin to innovate, they had to first climb this wall of technology and absorb what had developed while China was closed.
We didn't have enough money for infrastructure, schools, but all of a sudden, we had all of this money for Wall Street.
"By the mid-'60s I had this great quartet and then hit a wall, " says Mr. Lloyd, explaining his period away from performing.
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David Ranson had a good column earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal explaining that federal tax revenues historically have hovered around 19 percent of gross domestic product, regardless whether tax rates are high or low.
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And the occupiers of Wall Street had nothing to do with this comedown.
Ex-New York Governor Spitzer, who skyrocketed to national fame when he was Attorney General, by indicting but never convicting even one high profile Wall Street executive had a devastating setback this week.
This had become explicit in the recent investigations sweeping through Wall Street.
By this time Eliot Spitzer had become the lawman most feared on Wall Street.
This indicates that Wall Street, even as it had its hand out for all the government bailouts, never bought the fashionable argument that our crisis was as unusual as that which had called forth the New Deal.
He didn't say this to The Wall Street journal, but obviously he had survived the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame's name.
Even the Wall Street Journal had a story on the UK GDP figures this week, headlined "UK Pays Growth Price for AAA Rating".
Since Anna, Martin and Christopher know you can't get enough of this excitement, Anna had another letter published in the Guardian (Facebook wall for the literati, apparently), addressed to both the chaps, bringing in a bit more detail about who smoked what cigarette, for how long, and where and when.
Mr. BILLY PRUHOSKA (Engineer): Well, if I design that wall and it failed like this one did, and you had that many people killed, I could go to jail for negligent homicide, more than likely.
But when he assembled his treasury team after his election in November 2008, many of them had close connections with Wall Street, and he's been much criticized for this in some quarters ever since.
So Wall Street and most investors have had little chance or inclination to focus on this beguiling if complicated sector.
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Earlier this year, a ruling involving an Occupy Wall Street protester stated that courts had the right to subpoena tweets.
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Despite the realization that they had too much on their plates (and too many cards on the wall), this leadership team still struggled with narrowing their focus.
This time last year police removed protesters from the Wall Street park where they had camped for almost two months, and cold winter temperatures drove the movement's other outposts indoors.
Just a few minutes ago Senator Reid put out a statement calling on Senators McConnell and Cornyn to explain what they talked about when they had that meeting with Wall Street executives a few weeks ago that the President referred to this weekend during his address.
This after all is not the first price-fixing scandal: Wall Street has had several.
With the Olympic Games approaching, The Wall Street Journal set out to answer this parlor-game question: If Earth had to send one man to the Intergalactic Olympics, who should go?
Not all published patents lead to actual products, but Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have all published reports this month saying sources had confirmed Apple was experimenting with a watch-like device.
Back then, some pundits said a federal funds cut would only be bailing out the Wall Street firms, hedge funds and others that had gotten the U.S. markets into this credit mess to begin with.
They want to roll back Wall Street reform so that we end up with the same financial system we had that got us into this mess in the first place.
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