Studies in Britain and Germany as well as America show that the pace of job growth since the early 1990s has been slower in occupations that are easy to computerise.For the most talented and skilled, technology has increased the potential market and thus their productivity.
At the same time, the five slowest growing occupations, including production, maintenance and repair and farming, fishing and forestry, are those that do not tend to require college degrees.
But in the broadest terms, the decisions eventually made may determine whether Iraq adopts a system of quotas for running a Middle Eastern state that has been tried only in Lebanon, where its record is spotty (having failed to prevent, and was perhaps responsible for, two civil wars, along with a slew of occupations, invasions, crises and run-of-the-mill gridlock).
Shop owners, transportation workers, and residents are becoming increasingly frustrated with the pro-democracy occupations outside their windows, which have choked major thoroughfares and slowed business.
Meanwhile, Greater London saw occupations slow down, but still remains one of the best performers with just 8% left to be put to use.
The housing shortage was grave, the psychological scars of the German occupation were slow to heal, and colonial wars and political instability lowered morale.
First of all, because it is a slow, philosophic, and silent occupation, which keeps you busy but gives you time to think of other things, somewhat like riding a bike.
During the aftermath of the UCL occupation, a slew of privately educated anarchists appointed themselves to continue "fighting the student fight.
Others have attacked Porter for being too slow to endorse students' occupations of university buildings and said he had "admitted defeat before the battle over tuition fees had started".
Sales slowed during the German occupation, but the founder used the downtime to develop yet more products.
