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...linked exchange-rate system caused by a 10% devaluation of the Irish punt and a fierce attack by speculators on the Danish krone, one of Europe's strongest currencies. The rate cut also buoyed the sinking British pound, which last year was forced completely out of the currency grid by Germany's high interest rates. The action should lead to similar cuts in other European countries, ravaged by high unemployment and tottering near recession...
...most obvious explanation for governmental "grid lock," to use a recently coined term, is a sort of voter schizophrenia--the propensity to vote for local and national candidates with completely different views of the nation. This phenomenon is evident from the fact that Democratic Congresses have sat alongside Republican presidents for the last 12 years. Moreover, states that voted overwhelmingly for a Democratic President, like Massachusetts and Connecticut, elected and re-elected Republican congresspeople...
LaRouche said he will rebuild the transportation grid, with an emphasis on the rail system, push for fusion energy and institute a "science-driver, to fuel industrial productivity, such as a long-range buildup toward the colonization of Mars...
McKay, who said yesterday he quit the council last year because of "grid-lock," said that holding a campus wide election for the chair would go a long way towards improve the group's image...
...gets a gradual sense of the aspirations of the Catalan Renaixenca by walking the streets of Barcelona, noticing things, but the grid of the Eixample is vast and hard on the feet. Here in Domenech's choral theater, it is baptism by total immersion. The "new Barcelona" may not, in the end, produce any buildings that rival those of the late 19th century. But the fact of bringing the old ones back to civic life, in all their splendor, would be achievement enough for any city administration, Games or no Games...