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There are reasons, however, to think--and devoutly hope--that any slide in the dollar will be modest and gradual. Though the gap is shrinking, economic growth will remain faster in the U.S. than in Europe--and certainly than in Japan--for this year at least. Asian countries are recovering rapidly from their 1997-98 debacle; forecasts for expansion this year range from 3.4% in the Philippines to 6.8% in Malaysia. But Asian economies must reduce a huge overhang of debt before they can siphon away any investment now going...
...Shumsky is one of what Driskell calls the "few die-hards" who refuse to accept what she sees as the gradual elimination of the liberal-conservative split on the council...
America's gradual progress against AIDS will go down as one of the great scientific struggles of the late 20th century. But while the U.S. and other Western nations have made great strides in containing the virus at home, over the past two decades AIDS has grown into a pandemic across the developing world. The disease has spread to such a degree that, according to U.S. and U.N. security experts, AIDS now poses a major threat to global stability. According to a report in Sunday's Washington Post, the Clinton administration has recently made combating AIDS in developing countries...
...Since then, the story has been the Union Club’s gradual slide down the slope of Boston society. It has long been described as the “Rodney Dangerfield of Clubs.” Today the club is overrun by lawyers. The Union Club occupies the original mansion of Amos Lawrence on No. 7 and 8 Park Street. The upstairs dining rooms each have a magnificent view of the Commons to the west...
Another dismally awe-inspiring legacy of our 20th century obsession with water development has been the gradual disappearance of southern Louisiana. When the first irrigated civilizations were appearing in contemporary Iraq and Pakistan about 5,000 years ago, the Gulf of Mexico was roughly where New Orleans now sits. The Gulf, like all the other seas, had been rising since the last Ice Age, but the Mississippi River dumped 18 billion truckloads of sediment at the Gulf's door in the time it took the seas to rise a foot. It was (and still is) one of the planet...