don t conceal that this is the alliances don t conceal that this is the alliance s main don t conceal that this is the alliance s main purpose. - dr maria snegovaya is a visiting scholar at the institute for european, russian, and eurasian studies at george washington university. russia wants commitment that ukraine will not be allowed to join nato. is there a chance that ukraine canjoin? i don t think nato and the west have prepared to the risks associated to granting ukraine, but the suggestion is about informal cooperation in terms of the weapons provision. red vines have been shifting consistently over the recent years, and it s no longer about an informal association to nato. it s now about military cooperation with nato countries. the question is whether the west and east prepared to concede to those.
address customer complaints demands. talk about that yeah. well, nasty gal kind of emerged out of conversation. so ebay, yes, there was the bidding and ebay i was the platform for the business, but it was through social media that i really connected with my customers and this was back in late 2006, 2007, when the business started and really began to take off. i was there behind the computer, answering every single one of their questions, reading what they had to say about what they thought about the product or the models and learning on a very qualitative level, like what what our customer liked and what she didn t. what are your pieces of advice to millennials? what do you think they need to know as they go in the world. don t act like you arrived when you re just receiving an invitation, which i think a lot of people do they get their first paycheck or first promotion, woo hoo, and main don t plan the innocence as well as they could. at nasty gal, i always socked
think small. what does that mean? we write about these economists who write about education like a lot of people do, and they noticed that when you look at a class picture of gung su province which is poor, none of the children were wearing glasses. that s either because they don t need them or don t have them or there s no myopia here. they did some tests and found out plenty of children needed them but didn t have them. they provided free glasses. half the class they left as a control group, left them as is. half got the glasses. and after one year, the kids who got the glasses were basically a full grade ahead. does that solve the education problem? of course not. but it s an example of whoever is out there hearing this, whatever realm they re working on, if you peel off a small piece where you actually get
pee-pee in the potty, i ll give you mnms. i know that s her favorite thing. she said, really? why don t i do it right now. she goes in there. for the next two or three days, perfection. not one accident. on the third day she said, daddy, i have to go. go the the bathroom. she went and peed, came out, m & m s. daddy, i have to go again. it turns out this girl who couldn t make it to the toilet to save her life three days earlier had such exceptionally fine bladder control now that she could turn it on and off for m & m s. i thought it was a great example because what i always tell people with your lawmaker, economist, whoever, you set up these incentive schemes. you think you re smart enough, you think you thought about it ahead of time, but people are going to outsmart you. good note to end on. thank you so much. pleasure to have you on. up next, how does a shoplifting community college dropout become a big-time ceo of
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