Word: contagions
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...pace since 2003. Next year could be worse if the U.S. enters a full-blown recession. "There are few signs as yet of the damaging effect but it will show up soon enough," says Ramon Navaratnam, a former senior official in the Malaysian Finance Ministry. "We cannot escape the contagion...
...French banks lessens the prospect of foreclosures, which have haunted millions in the U.S. and are one major origin of the current crisis. That's hardly a reason for smugness, either, though, since there's scant evidence that enlightened domestic practices in France or anywhere else can ward off contagion from a global meltdown...
...sometimes takes a good financial crisis to remind us just how interconnected we are. When the New York stock market crashed in 1929 the economic shockwaves reached London, Paris and beyond, in one of the first examples of global economic contagion. News travels a little faster these days, and markets don't just follow Wall Street's lead, they anticipate it: stocks in parts of Asia dropped even before New York awoke last Monday, previewing the bloodbath that was to come in the U.S. Here's the buzz (and gloom) from five global financial centers - along with the drop...
...meat and fruit. Another big problem: improper holding temperatures (22% of restaurants kept food either not hot enough or not cold enough), which can potentially lead to bacteria festering in poorly cooked food. Inadequate hand-washing accounted for 16% of the violations recorded, putting diners at risk for contagion of norovirus or salmonella. Infestations of rodents and insects were cited in 13% of restaurants, most often in New York City, Boston and Philadelphia, while 11% of restaurants were cited for workers using dirty cloths to wipe down tables or food-preparation surfaces...
...Starbucks coffee, an expensive butter doesn't seem that extravagant." If this was the way food vendors and consumers were thinking, it was clearly up to me to collect a bunch of these expensive items to bring them down, to try to stem the contagion of snottification...