FW: [Reality Check] Loath

 

 

From: Barry [mailto:bsesnan@gmail.com]
Sent: 11 July 2008 06:39
To: bsesnan@gmail.com
Subject: [Reality Check] Loath

 

From a report:

NGO officials are loath to put a figure on lives potentially saved or

additional people helped if the money spent on transportation went to

food instead, but one analyst said it could roughly double the number

of beneficiaries based on the assumption that 70-80 million people now

receive US food aid annually.

This must be a record, as NGOs are wont to slap a figure usually with a lot of zeroes onto anything that moves (and doesn't!).  But we know we are still in familiar territory with 'roughly double' and then the estimated figure in millions which means that they were not really loath after all.

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Posted By Barry to Reality Check on 7/11/2008 06:38:00 AM

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Interesting long term position

From a job advert (Government of Pakistan) in last week’s Economist

1)      CRITERIA: Highly qualified, possibly postgraduate, with a minimum of 20 years experience

2)      TENURE: The selected candidate will be employed for an initial term of 4 years and shall be eligible for reappointment, upon satisfactory performance up to a maximum of 65 years.

Assuming you graduate at 20, that makes 105.

Well, Shangri’la, the land of eternal youth,  is in Pakistan, isn’t it?

Barry