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...former governor, Bush has been rather insensitive to the states? and cities? needs, mostly because he believes they dug themselves into this mess. Administration officials argue that during the boom years of the ?90s, the governments expanded services to unsustainable levels. They?ve got a point- state and city Democrats and Republicans alike cut taxes and increased spending at the same time. Now it?s time for the hangover. Still, Bush shouldn?t be so cocky on this subject. He?s also cutting taxes and raising spending, but he gets to run a deficit - a luxury states and cities...
...that way, since computers and servers used in businesses and telecommunications networks traditionally drive chip growth. This time around, consumer sales are driving: autos, PCs, DVD players, MP3 devices, set-top boxes, cell phones and digital cameras. Jean-Philippe Dauvin, chief economist at STMicroelectronics, says that from the mid-'90s until the end of last year, a typical European car like the VW Golf contained semiconductors worth around $70, but this year's models contain $220 worth of chips to control everything from CD player and power steering to upscale collision control systems...
...behind Samsung of South Korea and U.S. chipmaker Micron. Analysts predict that the semiconductor industry will grow next year and most of 2005 before the cycle turns down again. But this recovery, if it comes, will burn on a lower flame; growth rates are lower than in the early '90s, and most analysts believe those lower rates are here to stay. Schumacher, for one, understands that the rules of the road have changed. "The semiconductor industry will not succeed in achieving the growth rates observed in the past just with faster processors and more money," he says...
...impressive 6.3% in 2002, its inflation, which approaches 5%, is the euro zone's highest. With prices already 12% above the euro zone's average, a new government report warns that the country will surpass Finland in 2003 to become Europe's most expensive country. In the early '90s, Ireland was one of the E.U.'s cheapest. Ireland's dilemma points to the E.U.'s bigger one-rate-fits-all policy problem: The country needs an interest rate hike to help stymie rising prices, but with German inflation likely to fall to 0.8% in May, the European Central Bank will...
...unit, on the heels of deep job cuts last year. A decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push to be a global economic player. To exploit the late-'90s boom in worldwide regional-jet travel, Botelho committed Embraer to lighter, faster, farther-ranging and less expensive jets, which proved attractive to airlines even though they weren't - and still aren't - considered as technologically advanced as Bombardier's. Says Doug Abbey, executive director of the Regional Air Service Initiative...