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...chance that China's GDP growth will pick up as the year goes on, it is because consumer consumption within the country has not fallen apart. But, one of the issues that the government mentioned as a hurdle to growth was labor unrest and unemployment. Growing joblessness is almost certain to undercut the ability of the middle class to pull China out of its slowdown...
...obvious I would have been a literature professor, or even a professor. In those days there was very little advising about or even thinking about careers. You just sort of figured something would come along, and I might not even have been an academic. DD: I actually almost went to Divinity school. Our father’s an Episcopal priest and at the time I was thinking seriously about that. In fact at the end, I had gotten a scholarship for a year, and a trial year in Divinity school, and thought I was going to do that, but unexpectedly...
...advice was more cautious. “I think that pornography/erotica is the medium, and it really depends on what you’re saying,” she said. “You could have the most misguided reasons for being involved with it or you could have almost the most beautiful reasons for being a part of it.”“I don’t mean to be the voice of caution,” said Bezreh. “But I think the stigma is real...
...sure things will sort themselves out…”I leave a belated space for her name, and she fills it with “Ellen.”She’s wearing faded blue jeans that are almost white and a black long-sleeve shirt, tucked in with a thick black belt. “I was thinking of having some Special K, if that’s alright.” “Sure, help yourself to whatever’s in the cupboard.” A moment later...
...Canada. Even in the first years of this decade, when the shift of global manufacturing to China threatened to derail Mexican progress, the economy held its own. Politically, the election of the conservative Vicente Fox as President in 2000 - a mere 12 years after the PRI almost certainly stole the presidency from Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the candidate of the left - marked a decisive break with the past and signaled that Mexico had become a mature democracy...