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...state's $420 million shortfall by cutting pay raises for state workers and freezing construction projects at state universities. The Virginia legislature tried to block Gilmore's repeal of a state car tax so such deep cuts wouldn't be needed, but Gilmore prevailed. Now a new budget gap may force him to cut another $52 million...
They're out to set an agenda for the U.S.-Mexico relationship that would leave in the dust of history 155 years marked, successively, by warfare, suspicion and wary tolerance. "We have to reduce the gap between Mexico and the United States--the wage gap, the technology gap, the infrastructure gap," Castaneda says. "It is quite clear that Mexico faces enormous difficulties over the next 15 years or so in finding ways to finance its infrastructure: highways, airports, telecommunications, electricity, refineries, fiber optics--the works. We think that it is in the United States' best interest to help on this...
...Bruno Manser Foundation organized its own search party, which penetrated to the foot of Batu Lawi; a helicopter circled the rock. The expedition found nothing. One major gap in all the searches still remains, however: none of the search teams was able?or willing?to follow Manser and scale the murderously difficult last 100 meters of sheer limestone that forms the tip of Batu Lawi...
...Monday follow-up to Friday's misplaced giddiness, we weren't quite prepared to say it couldn't happen. Yes, it did seem that a sustained rally now, based as it would be on nothing at all, would make suckers of any who expected it to bridge the gap between now and THE RECOVERY, and what's more, the aformentioned recovery would be a lot better, a lot smarter, if it looked for a few more quarters before leaping...
...FORTUNE Global Forum in Hong Kong where he pledged to keep Thailand's economy open. Now he insists he has always been a free trader, but that he wants to promote policies that encourage efficient deployment of domestic capital, to close what he sees as a gap between foreign producers and Thai consumers. To that end, his economic advisers have promoted a policy of higher interest rates, insisting (heretically, to Westerners used to Keynesian pump priming) that is the only way to grow the economy. "We have to create an incentive to save, for money to stay in the country...