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...Bush Administration doesn't foresee an entirely pain-free fix: its latest budget, released this month, cuts dozens of programs. Still, it argues that continued growth will automatically reduce the size of the budget deficit. And U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow argues that the trade deficit is partly the result of lopsided growth. "We are growing faster than our trading partners, and we are creating more disposable income than they are," Snow said last month. "We need Europe to be more of an engine of growth, and we need Japan to be more of an engine of growth." But TIME...
...years - it's up more than 40% since 2002 - European leaders have been trafficking in gloom and doom. Politicians gripe about the damage to their national economies. France's new Finance Minister, Hervé Gaymard, last month called the dollar's decline "very worrying" and said Washington needed to fix the problem. And German trade groups sound more like self-help gurus when they talk - as they frequently do - about the currency crossing "a pain threshold." But despite all the whining, the strong euro has been a considerable boon to Europe's economy...
Consumers get peeved when a fix seems to cost too much. Get a written estimate before you give the O.K. for any service...
Slow down! That's the big advice derived from this year's list of top complaints from the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators and the Consumer Federation of America. Often, we're in such a hurry to buy, sell or fix something, we fail to take the commonsense measures that could protect us. Here's a closer look at the list. --By Jean Chatzky...
...Friday, Harvard and CSX discussed possible options to fix the fence. The fence has a large hole that may have served as the students’ access point to the tracks, according to BU’s student newspaper, the Daily Free Press...