If nothing else, it should keep you busy chopping things up into little pieces until Ground Zeroes comes out.

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There are books that gallop you through a landscape of vivid anecdotes in a quest to turn five insights or seven habits or 10 lessons into a grand theory about how things should work.

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But at a national level, Keynes' basic idea that governments should intervene when things go wrong, was gradually built into the fabric of every Western economy from the 1940s onwards.

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"We believe that no one should have to go into debt for the basic things in our lives, like healthcare, housing and education, " Gokey said.

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What I absolutely will not do, though, and what no one with an interest in getting things right should do, is to cram all of my analysis into a simplistic narrative of decay and decline.

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Where things have become difficult is over whether or not researchers should be allowed to send signals into space pre-emptively, in order to attract the attention of any alien listeners who might be out there.

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"My game plan going into the match was, instead of trying to win 6-0 6-0, I should try to work on things that are going to be important in the future, like coming into the net more and mixing up my serve, " she said.

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They talk about things they should not be talking about, so the competition can either leap frog them or incorporate their good ideas into their development, and avoid the mistakes made at Microsoft.

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And if putting more money into the pockets of the lowest earning Americans means they are able to buy more things, the effect should be increased national employment as businesses hire people to meet the needs of the increased sales.

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