• The news this morning brought one reminder of the one thing which is keeping them (relatively) calm in Downing Street.

    BBC: Bradford - an extraordinary one-off

  • One of the great thing about writing about tax is that I have the opportunity to remind folks not to take it quite so seriously.

    FORBES: Fun With Taxes: Tax Haiku

  • One of the best thing about Karl leaving is I can't wait to see him on television, because he's funny and he's smart and he's sharp and he will shake things up.

    NPR: Karl Rove is Out

  • One cannot help but wonder if our current inability to legislate our way out of a paper bag might be different were party leaders and the President to, once again, be free to avail themselves of the one thing that could always win the hearts and minds of elected officials who care, first and foremost, for their own jobs a healthy and legal bribe.

    FORBES: Why Congress Cannot Operate Without The Bribing Power Of Earmarks

  • Yet conspicuously absent from Mr. Osborne's bleak assessment of the U.K.'s prospects was any mention of the one thing that has dominated the policy debate for the past year: the fear the economy is turning Japanese, weighed down by so much bad debt that it is incapable of moving forward.

    WSJ: U.K. Is New Recruit on Europe's Sick List

  • The newfound independence would result in increased divorced rates or separated families for the very least, having the worst possible effect on the lives of future generations of the region, but one thing positive out of it would be the reduction in the unnecessary male domination in the societies.

    BBC: Yes

  • But having looked at the other side and at the great new intake of women who frankly have been one of the biggest disappointments of this Parliament, the last thing I want to see is positive discrimination, I want to see us actively address the problem, I want to see us encouraging, I want to see us trying to break down barriers.

    BBC: News Online

  • Britain, already in the midst of an economic storm, was hit by the real thing on Monday as one of the worst snow storms in two decades threatened to shake the country's already-fragile business landscape.

    FORBES: Market Scan

  • In all the fighting in Washington over renewable fuels, carbon emissions and the future of nuclear power, the one thing energy experts agree on is that the nation's power grid is in desperate need of a makeover.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And so on, for everything you can think of that might mess up your measurement of the effect of one thing on well-being, rather than another.

    BBC: Why it's hard to measure happiness

  • At the end of the day, there is one thing I know about the question of whether mothers can balance it all work, have a career, and be good mothers for their children it is wrought with guilt and controversy.

    FORBES: The Right to Choose: Work and Motherhood

  • And at the end of all this, we're sure of one thing - the economy is worse than when we started.

    NPR: Economy Is Not Off Life-Support Yet

  • And secondly, if you could just -- just to follow up on the Congress issue, everybody in this White House was saying at the end of last year that this was the one thing, or one of two things, that would have bipartisan support and that everybody was going to be able to move forward together on.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • If there is a majority against it, we have a problem, with the DPP and 82% of the public saying one thing and the people's elected representatives saying another.

    BBC: MPs back assisted dying guidelines

  • By the end of 2012, the stockpile of inefficiencies made one thing abundantly clear: we cannot handle more growth with our current infrastructure.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Although none have yet been named, the members of the committee look like they will be chosen on the basis of one thing: A refusal to compromise in any way.

    FORBES: Required Reading: Super Budget Cut Committee is Doomed; Epic Tax Battles Coming

  • One of the joys of this journalism thing is that one gets sent alerts to petitions and campaigns that one would never have heard about in the normal course of events.

    FORBES: Does The DoD Want To Kill Us All With Radioactive Nuclear Scrap Metal? No, No Not Really

  • Whether or not the Dominican Republic secures its place as champion of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, one thing is certain: The influx of MLB players from the Dominican Republic shows no signs of slowing down.

    FORBES: The Secrets Behind The Dominican Republic's Success In The World Baseball Classic And MLB

  • The three headlines are also, regrettably, indicative of one other thing: a certain cluelessness on the part of the U.S. government.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Connect the dots

  • It is a far cry from the original hacker ethos of making one cool thing, though perhaps still close to the hacker ideal of remaking the world.

    FORBES: Tech Gets Older, Bigger

  • From the simple, singular, one thing of golf, the aspiring golfer inevitably finds himself up to his chin with the everything of complexity.

    FORBES: Three Steps to Making Better Decisions

  • "Carbon dioxide is the one thing that we've done nothing about so far, from really any of our economy aside by from increasing efficiency, and its the one thing that will substantially change the climate on time scales of 100 years or so, " said David Keith, an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

    CNN: Energy debate may soon turn on 'cleaner' coal

  • They don't really care about the plight of European leaders at the mercy of an economic crisis that demands one thing: great integration - but could prompt a political crisis demanding the exact opposite: a looser Europe.

    BBC: Americans wade in on Euro crisis

  • The cost to companies for carbon permits will make this thing one of the biggest tax-raising machines of modern times.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It became the hottest thing going, one of the defining cultural phenomena of the 1980s.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The good thing was that one of the FIA guys gave us a thumbs-up when we came past which was fantastic of him.

    BBC: Mark Webber column

  • Indeed, it points to such laudable projects such as a low-cost, wind-powered land mine detonator -- not exactly the kind of thing one would pick up on the next Target run (even on sale).

    ENGADGET: Switched On: Higher stakes, higher ground for crowdfunding, part 1

  • In fact, in most of the deals undertaken by the stranger, the one thing that he can be certain of is that, when the time comes to pay, the price which has been definitely agreed upon has for one very plausible reason or another been increased.

    NPR: Cracking the China Market, Then and Now

  • "The first thing in my mind was how in the world Mr. Edwards could ask one more thing of us, " Young said of her thoughts at the time.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Earlier today I wrote about the most important aspects of innovation - the one thing you cannot do without in innovation is strong, committed leadership.

    FORBES: Samsung's Record Profits From Apple's Main Market

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