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...tune and it's got an upbeat tempo. The latest twist came Friday, when the Labor Department reported net job creation for the first time in seven months and a drop in the unemployment rate to 5.5% in February, from 5.6% the month before. Normally, unemployment continues to drift higher for a few months after a recovery starts. This could be the beginning of one of the quickest job rebounds ever...
...point of backing Bush at every opportunity. The transatlantic bridge he has labored to build and bestride has become too wobbly to bear his weight gracefully. A former aide to Bill Clinton says that Blair "is a little like Vladimir Putin: he hasn't gotten much for his westward drift." Labour backbenchers are roiling as M.P.s beyond the usual antiwar suspects signal strong opposition to an Iraq war. Claire Short, the International Development Minister, has said privately she will protest in the streets if Iraq is bombed. But like a monk who believes self-flagellation is the path to salvation...
...industry, digital radio's pluses are easily explained: clearer sound and more choice. Digitalization transforms sound into the binary codes of 1s and 0s, which can be transmitted as audio waves free from interference. The result is a CD-like broadcast unmarred by the hiss, static and drift that bedevil analog stations. And because digital uses little bandwidth, it allows for the transmission of many more channels. Niche stations already available in Britain range from all-film music to classic rock to One Word, a station that features audio books. Advertisers are keen to embrace digital radio because its increased...
...true today as it was in the 1930s and for many of the same reasons. Aggression against the Jews is the common denominator of many of the greatest tyrannies of the modern age, and the epidemic of anti-Semitism in Arab lands is all too disturbing evidence of the drift of their political culture...
When Japanese talk about their country, they cling to cliché. A resource-poor land ... rising from the rubble of World War II ... Japan as number one. Even in the past decade of flounder and drift, the wisdom was always conventional. Increase government spending ... tighten the belts ... no pain no gain...