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...euro and yen top the list of must-watch "funding" currencies for 2010, but that prognosis might change as the year unfolds. Like Greece, both Britain and the U.S. have dangerously high levels of outstanding debt, largely due to stimulus spending and bailouts intended to get their respective economies back on their feet. While this might spell trouble for the dollar and British pound, it's a looming opportunity for those who ply the carry trade...
...work stops whenever and wherever a problem occurs. (Any employee can pull a cord to shut down the line if there is a problem.) That way, says Steven Spear of MIT, author of Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition and an expert in the dynamics of high-performance companies, "When I see something that's not perfect, I call it out, figure out what it is that I don't know and convert ignorance to knowledge...
...company has also been trying to repair its relationship with consumers. "We have not lived up to the high standards you have come to expect from us. I am deeply disappointed by that and apologize. As the president of Toyota, I take personal responsibility," Akio Toyoda wrote in the Washington Post...
...Lusskin, she says that for depressed women who fall in the high-risk category - those with a history of chronic mood disorders, for example, like Jamie Nesi - antidepressant medications may be necessary. She thinks the "risks of untreated ailments are known and may be worse than the potential harmful effects of taking the drug...
Scientists were then able to infer the approximate sea level at the time the calcite was deposited, and estimate that some 81,000 years ago sea levels were about 1 m higher than they are now - which suggests that global temperatures were at least as high, or higher than they are now, even though CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere were much lower then. The study also indicates that the sea level was changing rapidly around this time period, rising as much as 1 m the century before, as ice melted, and then falling afterward at around the same speed...