Word: deficits
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...outright global recession, economists concede, is still a real possibility. "The risks of a deeper, wider, more prolonged downturn have escalated," the International Monetary Fund reported in its most recent global forecast; the Commerce Department said last month that in August the trade deficit ballooned $2.2 billion, to $16.8 billion. Warning signs abound that this involves more than just collapsing Asian and Latin American markets. After years of low unemployment, a number of major U.S. companies have responded to their earnings troubles with year-end job cuts, among them Merrill Lynch (3,400), Raytheon (14,000), LSI Logic...
...rate: 1 euro to $1.20) at a time when the value of the U.S. currency has been sliding. That could help the American economy, at least initially, by boosting its exports. But if the dollar falls too far, that would make it harder to fund the swelling U.S. trade deficit and could force the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates higher than it would otherwise. That, in turn, could slow U.S. economic growth...
...Your new album has a song called ADD. Do you have attention-deficit disorder...
Harvard then caught a break that would grantthe Crimson new hope as the rebound bounced out tojunior forward Beth Zotter it into the goal to cutthe Dartmouth lead to a manageable 2-1 deficit...
Harvard willed its way to its third straight win, overcoming a 10-0 deficit and using chicanery--a 41-yard touchdown on a halfback pass by junior Chris Menick--to beat a team Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said may be physically superior...