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  • Free Foreign Language Courses for Global Professionals

    Did you know that you can access free foreign language courses online? The Foreign Service Institute offers a variety of learning materials for a range of languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.

    Posted on May 16.08 to Education   

  • GDP and the Economy: Advance Estimates for the First Quarter of 2008

    From the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
    Real GDP grew 0.6 percent after growing 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007. Consumer spending for services, inventory investment, and exports increased. In contrast, housing investment and consumer spending for durable goods decreased. Read the full report here.

    Posted on May 16.08 to Economics   

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    A…powerful tendency operates within the modern corporate enterprise. Personal prestige and position in any organization turns in substantial measure on the number of one’s subordinates. And one’s comfort and contentment are notably improved by the availability of subordinates to whom tedious thought and duty can be passed. Therefore the first instinct of anyone appointed to a corporate post at any level above the lowest is to acquire the assistants who are so serviceable to both prestige and ease of effort. From this, in turn, comes the powerful dynamic of bureaucratic expansion.

    Economics in Perspective: A Critical History
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