Word: alongism
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...Tokyo Out of the Woods? Japanese officials reported some unusual news about the nation's economy: it's growing. Japan posted annualized second-quarter GDP growth of 3.7%, marking its first expansion in more than a year and indicating a possible end to its recession. Along with positive news from Europe, the results fueled hope that a global recovery may be near (though the U.S. continues to lag). They may also cushion the thumping expected for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Aug. 30 elections...
...Africa Lost and Found A Russian-manned, Maltese-flagged freighter, which vanished last month after a reported hijacking in the Baltic Sea, was recovered along the west coast of Africa on Aug. 17 by Russian officials. If confirmed, the hijacking of the Arctic Sea would be the first act of piracy in European waters since the 17th century...
...Malta says it knew the ship's location all along but kept mum to protect the crew...
...Jersey Hacker Caught Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old hacker, was indicted on Aug. 17, along with two Russian co-conspirators, in what is believed to be the largest retail-store theft in U.S. history. Gonzalez, who had been arrested on similar charges before, allegedly cracked the databases of 7-Eleven, two other retail chains and a New Jersey--based credit-card-processing company to steal some 130 million credit-card numbers...
...late 2001, this ratio began to climb, and by 2003, it was soaring along with home prices, hitting 24.7 in 2005. In those days, you could get 24.7 years in a rental for the cost of a house. That was right about when Choe decided that renting looked like a steal...