Word: accountants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only gives The Big Three modest financing, Japanese car firms may actually be in a position to gain market share in America by being able to financially ?outlast? the domestic car companies. Any funds the Congress agrees to provide to GM and Chrysler need to take that into account...
...them state-controlled, appear to have largely avoided the toxic assets that have been the downfall of so many of their counterparts in the U.S. and Western Europe. Yet the drop in energy and commodity prices since the summer is exposing Russia's fragility: gas and metals account for more than three-quarters of export earnings. The boom, it turns out, was built on expensive oil and precious little else. Economic growth, which averaged more than 7% for the past five years, has tumbled, and the government now expects the economy to contract 0.2% this year. And for the first...
...businessmen like Rosenberg have recently been spurred on by a growing global market for fine, dark, single-origin (unblended with other varieties) chocolate. Europe and the U.S. account for an almost 40% increase in demand in the past three years. The challenge for Rosenberg and other criollo growers now is to make the plantations viable enterprises. Yet modernity hasn't quite arrived at the Monterosa hacienda, set in the tropical forest of the Henri Pittier National Park. Workers here are drying cacao much the same way they have for 250 years...
...focus is the impressive notion that “the same global, coherent mathematics” can be used by a wide variety of scientists, engineers, economists, and doctors to explain such seemingly divergent topics as factory efficiency and the structure of the universe. Livio attempts to account for these seemingly unrelated applications of math by creating an historical narrative about how mathematicians throughout time have interpreted the “underlying mathematical facility” that appears to govern man’s existence...
...this staffer's account, during the transition, Summers, his deputy Jason Furman and the White House's top congressional liaison, Phil Schiliro, laid out the broad principles they wanted the bill to adhere to, but when it came to actual content, they deferred to the committee leaders. "Because otherwise what's the point in doing something, pie in the sky, if it doesn't have the votes?" the staffer says...