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...Someone had been staying there. There were garbage bags with someone's clothing and a seat cushion. Fearful that the squatters may still be lurking, we crept through the front room and down the hall. Once we were sure there was no one inside, Laurie began to feel angry and violated. Then she saw an envelope. It was a letter from an older woman who lived across the street. In the note she apologized profusely for entering the apartment and for having used the restroom. She said she was forced to abandon her place after the storm and swim...
...Japan and India may fare a little better. Japan has seen an improvement recently in domestic demand, which?if sustained?would cushion any shortfall in exports. Japan also benefits from the extraordinary progress it has made in improving its energy efficiency. Since 1973, Japan's oil intensity ratio?a measure of the amount of oil consumed as a proportion of economic output?has fallen by 83%, well in excess of the 50% decline experienced by the U.S. over the same period. Nevertheless, with China now Japan's largest export market, any weakening in Chinese economic growth traceable to the energy...
...already in the cards. China's leadership will most likely adopt a wait-and-see stance as far as further currency moves are concerned. If GDP keeps surging at its current 9.5% rate, policymakers will probably push harder on the currency-revaluation lever?using slowing exports as the cushion to engineer a soft landing...
...don’t think the high school students provide that kind of cushion,” Neugeboren adds...
...while Reagan and Gorbachev socialized at a reception thrown by the Swiss government and at a dinner given by the Reagans at their residence, Maison de Saussure. At 10 p.m. the party repaired to the library for coffee, and Reagan and Gorbachev settled on a red sofa, an embroidered cushion between them and their aides huddled around. Shultz quietly advised that negotiations at the staff level were not going well. Then Shultz, so seemingly bland in his public utterances, took a bold step. He dramatically pointed across the room to a Soviet official, Georgi Korniyenko, and declared, "You, Mr. Korniyenko...