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...says Gerald Curtis, a Japanese-politics expert and professor at Columbia University. Not everyone is convinced they'll succeed. Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo, is skeptical that cutting wasteful spending will compensate for growing expenditures: Japan's aging population means social-security spending alone must expand by $10.7 billion annually over the next five years. "The DPJ will have to show people a consistent way to finance additional spending," Kanno says. "This has nothing to do with political ideologies. It's the reality of economic equations...
...anyone who wants to get inside the top pop quartet of the 20th century, whether you're an experienced gamer or not. It arrives with the blessings of McCartney and Starr, the group's surviving members, and of Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison; all were on board to expand and exploit a form that didn't exist when the Beatles were shaking up the world. Harrison's son Dhani, 31, helped bring Apple and Harmonix together; Giles Martin, son of Beatles record producer George Martin, devised intros for the songs culled from the band's studio banter. Like the Cirque...
...World Bank Group found that a 10 percent increase in connection speeds is correlated with a 1.3 percent increase in economic growth. The faster the Internet becomes, the more purposes it can serve; high-speed Internet is the basis for many local IT businesses that generate jobs and exports. Expanding the high-speed Web to rural areas and increasing speeds in developed areas will also make long-distance learning easier and expand the possibilities of telemedicine...
...especially in the emerging markets, such as China and India, where Hershey has little exposure. In 2008, U.S. sales accounted for more than 90% of Hershey's sales revenue, according to the company's 10-K filing. And analysts believe the chocolate magnate's most effective way to expand its global reach is by acquiring or merging with a company that already has a big confectionary footprint in those markets...
...victim, better brace yourself, because the bodies will soon becoming thick and fast…”The centerpiece of “The Skating Rink,” Bolaño’s first novel, is an idiosyncratic narrative structure and style that the novelist would expand upon and perfect in “The Savage Detectives.” Each narrative point of view takes the tone of a one-sided interview, or a stream-of-consciousness deposition. The men in question fill their winding explanation of the events during that summer in Z leading...