Word: grosse
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...Nowhere is the policy challenge bigger than in Asia. With the region's recovery gaining pace more quickly than elsewhere, it could be the first region to face inflation pressures. In China, growth is rapidly returning to pre-crisis levels. On Oct. 22, China reported that its gross domestic product grew by a healthy 8.9% in the third quarter, from the same period a year earlier. Inflation in China "will rise faster than in most other major economies and will therefore justify earlier and stronger-than-expected rate hikes," wrote Jun Ma, an economist at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong...
...memorandum is a recognition that they have got to deploy or employ these resources in a rational and an effective way, and using police time to arrest people who are ill and are using marijuana for medical purposes is a gross misallocation of resources," he says...
Everybody was a kid once. Many people still are. And nearly all of them, it seems, went to the movies this weekend to channel their inner child, or the monster lurking in their psyches. In a weekend whose gross revenue was 38% over the previous one's, and 59% over the same one last year, the top spot went to Where the Wild Things Are, which set an opening-day record for a live-action PG film and, according to early studio reports, will end the session with $32.5 million. The serial-killer thriller Law Abiding Citizen slashed...
...region had either slowed sharply or tumbled into outright recession. Far from having the autonomous capacity to decouple from weakness elsewhere in the world, export-led developing Asia had become even more tightly tethered to foreign markets than was the case a decade earlier. The export share of panregional gross domestic product (GDP) hit a record 47% in 2007, fully 10 percentage points higher than the portion in the late 1990s. With approximately 50% of those exports earmarked for the rich countries of the developed world, a rare and sharp synchronous downturn in the U.S., Europe and Japan undermined...
...what’s this? Michael with Pam’s mom? Not as gross as Creed and Meredith, but?...