fatalistic, like barber jerry rodriguez. >> you don't have control of it, you can't worry about it.o, you see it, you hope it doesn't happen in your lifetime or ever. >> reporter: but the new images from japan have given the doomsday earthquake scenario new urgency, with an added twist. the threat that a quake might be followed by a nuclear meltdown. >> about 75 million americans live in earthquake-prone areas. and that is a problem. our systems are clearly not ready to respond to large-scale disasters like this. in fact, we're substantially less ready than japan. >> reporter: that's a real concern in a state that sits astride several major fault lines and has four nuclear reactors, one of them, this one, smack on the coast between los angeles and san diego. is this plant safe? >> absolutely. >> reporter: even in the middle of earthquake country? >> with all the design basis information and all the designs that are put into this plant, this plant is absolutely safe. >> reporter: but in nearby san clemente, they are revuing the backup plan just in case the city has sirens in town and

as for who negotiates, academics find it's those whose worldview is more optimistic than fatalistic, malleable versus fixed. psychologists have noted that across the globe, men consistently have a higher propensity to see the world as their oyster than women. ergo, more men negotiate than women. so ladies, here's to us learning to ask for it-- loud and proud-- in the workplace because the world is our oyster too. i'm manisha thakor. >> tom: just a reminder-- you catch us online at nbr on pbs.org. there you can comment on our blog or watch any programs that you may have missed. or you can follow us on twitter, @bizrpt, or my personal feed, @hudsonnbr. if tweeting isn't your thing, friend us on facebook at bizrpt. >> susie: that's "nightly business report" for wednesday, march 16. we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> tom: support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. >> susie: thanks for joining us, and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm susie gharib. good night everyone. you

cultural vibrancy it never happened before and then the first time in generations and it was a fatalistic irish men would expect is badly off the rails ending up in a credit bubble avon larger than the one we had in the united states and now faces difficult choices. >> how did ireland enterprise and '80s and '90s? >> and the late 80's they followed a multi part strategy with public financing is strained out that allow interest rates to come down and attract a lot of investment from the u.s. companies like intel, citigroup gateway and microsoft corporation into the country. they negotiated agreements between the nine governments and business community to make investments predictable comedy prior the currency and again 1992 and it all ended up with the mayor call that was done to the cal tech tie their. after years of no growth at all, ireland was a backwater almost a third world country in the 1980's then it started to kick over growing at 10% per year, year after year to the flights where by the year 2000, for the first time in modern history the irish on a per-capita basis were richer th