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- March 21, 2012
“Real interests are at stake...Even though they have reneged on promises in the past, I think this one is more serious.” Samer Shehata, professor of Arab politics at Georgetown University and Egypt specialist, on the Muslim Brotherhood's consideration to select their own candidate to run in Egypt's upcoming elections.
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Source: The New York Times
- March 21, 2012
"I think what all of us have to understand is that part of this is a waiting game to see when this regime will eventually collapse of its own weight and that's when you can deal with the nuclear problem," Victor Cha, professor in the School of Foreign Service, on US strategy in regards to a changing North Korea.
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Source: NPR
- March 14, 2012
“Labor talks about it because people think big corporations are just out to make a lot of money and the automotive bailout saved jobs. It appeals to their groups -- not to convince independents -- but to juice up the base.” Stephen Wayne, professor of government, on the auto bailout and government regulation of financial services of the industry.
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Source: Bloomberg Business Week
- March 13, 2012
"Public opinion about the war has moved steadily ... in the direction that we ought to pull out, and the sooner the better. This massacre will certainly enhance that." Mark Rom, associate professor of government, on public opinion concerning the war in Afghanistan.
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Source: Reuters
- February 27, 2012
"I think that there is a quantity and a quality issue. So, if you look at quality, anytime your child is exposed to media, you want to be sure they're looking at the right kind of programs and the right kind of content." Sandra Calvert, professor of psychology, on the potential benefits of television programs for young children.
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Source: MSNBC
- February 23, 2012
"A Washington focus on manufacturing...may lead policymakers to overlook significant opportunities for growth in a much larger part of the economy: the business services sector, which includes software, finance, architecture and engineering services," J. Bradford Jensen, professor in the School of Business, on the role of the business services sector in the US economy.
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Source: Washington Post
- February 23, 2012
"In general, what's happened in the labor market is that occupational skills are more and more important and more and more lucrative....As the requirements in occupations go up, employers prefer people with graduate degrees." Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce, on the growing worth of graduate degrees.
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Source: NPR
- February 15, 2012
"They have been 'free-for-alls' where all the Republican candidates for president have been able to make their best claims, their biggest charges, their strongest attacks on their opponents as a way of lifting themselves up in the polls." Mark Rom, associate professor of government, on the nature of the recent presidential debates.
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Source: Voice of America
- February 5, 2012
“The more divisive and longer the process, the more it saps the strength of the party and weakens the party in a general election contest.” Stephen Wayne, professor of government, on the duration of the Republican presidential candidate nomination race.
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Source: The Washington Post
- February 3, 2012
"In the last year, productivity growth has slowed down. Over the long term, that's not great. But in the short term, it helps you. Population growth, on the immigration side especially, has slowed down. So even a smaller amount of GDP growth is translating into some drop in unemployment." Harry Holzer, professor of public policy, on the improvement in unemployment rates.
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Source: PBS
- January 21, 2012
“Disclosure by itself is not the solution to any problem. It’s a path to earn trust. But just saying things is not enough, unless you also do something," Clyde Wilcox, professor of government, concerning issues of levels of disclosure in government.
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Source: The New York Times
- January 11, 2012
"Regardless of the other candidates' performances in New Hampshire or even what happens in the South Carolina primary next week, Mitt Romney is extremely likely to be the Republican nominee," Jonathan Ladd, assistant professor of government and public policy, on the likelihood of Mitt Romney's nomination as the Republican presidential candidate.
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Source: CNN
- November 24, 2011
“We have had incumbents in the past who were a good deal less popular than Obama and, even then, third-party challengers haven’t been ultimately successful," Jonathan Ladd, assistant professor of government and public policy, on the likelihood of a successful third-party presidential candidate.
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Source: ABC News
- October 3, 2011
"The key question for kids is whether it's developmentally appropriate. If the focus is on abstract concepts with practical applications and it's easy for kids to relate to the process, it might be a terrific idea."
William Gormley, professor of public policy and co-director of the Center for Research on Children in the U.S. (CROCUS), on a new grant from PNC Bank that will teach financial education to children younger than 5 at the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington.
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Source: Washington Examiner
- September 30, 2011
"We also asked the simple question: if you repeat dry clean the same piece of cloth multiple times, does [perchloroethylene] build up? And we answered that indeed it does, for wool - it keeps building up quite a bit, as a matter of fact. Whereas for cotton and polyester, it sort of plateaus after two or three dry cleaning cycles."
Paul Roepe, professor in the chemistry department, on his recent study which shows that residues of the potentially carcinogenic dry cleaning solvent perchloroethylene remain on dry cleaned clothing.
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Source: Living on Earth