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...campaign launch in Auckland on Aug. 21. Economic output has grown by an average of 4% a year; the country's unemployment rate has dropped to 3.7%, the lowest in the developed world. Dairy, meat and horticultural export earnings have soared. House prices have boomed, encouraging property owners to borrow - to buy consumer goods or even bigger homes. Since 9/11, the isolated country has been seen as a safe haven; expats have returned home and the spectacular vistas of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings franchise have attracted tourists. Clark has worked relentlessly to rebrand the nation - to itself...
...farmers, retirees, Auckland workers and alternative lifestylers - and about the main contest. "We have to create a bigger economy, not just change the way we slice it up." Yes, the tax package he designed is offering big tax cuts. No, the government won't have to borrow to pay for them. "Sure someone might be $50 better off per week, but at the end of the day we are trying to appeal to something more primal - to reach into the heart of people's beliefs and ideas...
...Powered by two 60-horsepower outboard motors, their rigid-hull inflatable boat is the most valued piece of police equipment in these parts. Before ramsi, there was no police boat or vehicle, and local officers often had to borrow canoes or walk long distances to bring in a suspect or respond to a call for help. On a cloudy, humid afternoon, in Roviana lagoon, south of Munda, RSIP officer Ege Saro skippers the inflatable around shallow-lying coral reefs. Reaching open water, he pushes it to a zippy, if bumpy, 27 knots. After a 50-min. journey, the boat arrives...
Instead, Over There focuses, to borrow Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, on the narrow "soda straw" of the grunts' experience--a fog of war both physical and moral, with the only sure thing the desire to stay alive. The battle scenes may be the most visceral (literally) and gripping that series TV has ever done. As scary as the battle is the uncertainty. In one episode, the unit works at a checkpoint, unsure if they have killed good guys or bad guys even after they search the bullet-shattered cars. The show's power, of course, comes from knowing that these...
...meeting, Schurtenberger?presciently, as it turned out?questioned whether the company was prepared for what was likely to be a hostile U.S. political reaction to the deal. Henkes wondered about the debt load that CNOOC would have to take on to finance the transaction?the firm is seeking to borrow about $16 billion. He asked whether a partner might be brought in to absorb some of the risk. (This was something Haier, a large Chinese appliance company, did, by turning to a U.S. private-equity firm as its partner in making a bid for Maytag last month...