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...Africa. Such battles are bitterly divisive, but they may be necessary if Germany is to become competitive again. Longer hours without more pay would boost growth. Yet longer hours with more pay, as some unions will require, would encourage spending, which Germany desperately needs. The recovery can't really blossom until robust exports are matched by a boost in domestic consumption--but Germany's jobless rate, which dropped fractionally in June to 10.5%, has people too spooked to spend...
...There, sitting side by side, Stutchbury and Mitchell quiz the editors of the sport, business, arts and world pages on their strongest yarns. Then Whittaker runs through a list of 36 news stories offered by bureau chiefs around the country. Some stories will crash during the day, others will blossom and some will need more time. And one may become the splash, the main page-one news story, which is at the heart of each day's urgency. Conversation rattles around the table. Someone's heard unfavorable comments from sources about Labor's standing among local Israelis. Has party leader...
...girls were all wearing plain, baggy, black swimsuits, and some looked longingly at their famous compatriot in her sleek, purple suit with high-cut legs and a splash of sequins on the rear. One day, they might have been dreaming, they too could rise above the state and blossom into an exquisitely modern Chinese sports star...
...parties on both sides of the Charles mull over the various task force recommendations, it is becoming clear that the complex process of stitching together University, city and community interests will continue into the foreseeable future—a long time for Allston residents desperate for their neighborhood to blossom, or at least improve...
...think that was inevitable, but her mother demanded that Elizabeth's symptoms be treated, a radical notion at the time. She took her daughter to an endocrinologist, who put Elizabeth on daily injections of human growth hormone, a therapy that caused her to grow like a weed and blossom developmentally as well. When Elizabeth had difficulty learning to speak, Cody pushed for her to see a neurologist, who determined that the problem had more to do with the impairment of her hearing than with her intelligence. The 3-year-old was fitted with a hearing aid and began learning sign...