Word: closing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Recently analysts covering the manufacturing sector said that so many factories are shut here and overseas that the businesses are eating through inventories. That is being interpreted as good news because once inventories move close to zero, factories will have to increase production to replace them. That analysis glosses over two possibilities. The first is that the economy is bad enough that inventories may not drop at expected rates. Low demand may cause them to decrease much more slowly. That could push back a renewal of manufacturing activity for months. It is also possible that some factories will simply...
...fact that stress has a cumulative effect on the body. We seem to be strong, or at least we tell ourselves that [laughs], and we haven't had any problems, but that's not to say something couldn't happen down the line. So we keep a real close eye on our employees...
...downturns. About a month ago, a senior administration official explained the dynamic this way. "It's actually easier to do expansive economic policy in a recession," the official said, in a statement that is widely accepted by economists. "The existence of a large pool of unemployed people creates as close [as] economics ever has to the possibility of a free lunch for economic policy...
...challenge of the other half of Kennedy's equation. "It's my responsibility to my country to teach people about the elections," he said. "People say they are stupid, but we have nothing else to look forward to." I watched as the English-speaking waiter loitering a little too close to our table grinned. But it wasn't a smile of condescension from a government informant. It was a smile, I think, of hope...
...some also blame the ruling Congress Party for playing politics with sport. IPL chairman Lalit Modi is known to be close to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Some BJP leaders have pointed out that states where the Congress or its allies are in power were the ones that denied security for IPL matches. "Cricket could have done without such politicization," says New Delhi-based cricket commentator G. Rajaraman, who holds Congress responsible. "Only Congress-ruled states said they could not provide security," he says, citing the examples of Delhi and Andhra Pradesh. "Only one match would be played...