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...friends and family. Sound familiar? This patchwork is difficult enough for 9-to-5 workers, but in an economy in which more and more businesses work 24/7, parents who work "nonstandard" hours and weekends have an even harder time finding acceptable child care. Any family facing the child-care crunch knows there will be times when the patches don't hold...
...budge. Management, in fact, was outwardly unfazed by the 50 percent drop-off in production that angered customers waiting for sorely needed new airplanes. But in this age of stock option-rich execs, it took little more than a nudge from Wall Street to force a deal. The crunch came earlier this week when analysts lowered their earnings forecasts for the firm, sending the stock to a 52-week low. A few years ago such a strike might not have inspired an adjusted forecast, but since Airbus has cut into Boeing's share of global manufacturing by about 25 percent...
Remember the '80s? Japan was ascendant, America was in disarray, emerging markets were wallowing in the Decade of Debt. Asia's Century was said to have begun. Then came the collapse of Japan's bubble, followed by the currency crunch along the entire Pacific Rim. While Asia, stunned, watched from a distance, the Internet-driven New Economy mushroomed in the West. For a while, it seemed as if the long-predicted Pacific Century might be stillborn--or stolen altogether...
Despite the agave crunch, tequila's popularity is likely to endure--another reason those caballitos are going to cost more. Elliot Lane, deputy editor of Drinks International Bulletin, a London liquor newsletter, expects prices to rise 30% to 60% in the next six months. So forget buying limes and salt--you'll be needing every penny for tequila...
...Space Crunch...