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...been paying them in dollars, and they've been investing our dollars in new plants and machinery to make their country more productive so they can sell us more goods and make even more dollars. At this point, Japan and much of the rest of the world have a glut of dollars, more than they know what to do with. And whenever there's an oversupply of something, its price goes down. Hence the falling dollar...
...Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a glut of academic jobs expected to surface in the 1990s has not materialized...
Instead, we will have a glut of collateral damage, thousands of sick and starving people, and the unenviable task of creating a democracy in a land that is notorious for its hostility toward and lack of experience with the concept. We would have to station a large force for an indefinite time in hopes of achieving a nearly impossible goal. Not exactly the stuff mid-term election dreams are made...
...loss of revenue is significant because ofthe possible difficulty of finding a buyer ortenant given the weak real estate market andnationwide glut of office space...
...market was always there, but in the 1980s it posed little threat to most tiger populations. In previous years China had slaughtered thousands of its tigers, claiming the animal was a pest that endangered humans. The massacre created a temporary glut of tiger bone -- more than enough to satisfy the traditional medicine market. Looking back on what happened next, Peter Jackson, chairman of the cat-specialist group at IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, in Geneva, says ruefully, "We should have seen this coming." Only in the late 1980s, he notes, after the Chinese had exhausted their...