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...apparent reason to reject the Howard government, which had made stability and prosperity seem like the country's natural condition. It's now in its 16th consecutive year of economic expansion, with GDP growing at over 3% a year and exports at 10%. Unemployment and interest rates are the lowest since the 1970s. Listening to Howard's concession speech Saturday night, former Liberal Senator Michael Baume said: "This is the first defeat of a government in decades where there was no evident anger or public rage...
...compulsory, elections turn on a dozen or so marginal seats, where small shifts in voter sentiment can make or break governments. There was reason to think swinging voters would applaud Howard: Australia is in its 16th successive year of economic growth, and unemployment and interest rates are the lowest since the '70s. "This is the first defeat of a government in decades where there was no evident anger or public rage," said former Liberal Senator Michael Baume. Instead there was ennui. Many voters were tired of Howard, and unexcited by Treasurer (now Opposition leader) Peter Costello...
...officials in recent weeks have touted successes in bringing down the level of violence in Iraq, saying statistics showed that the weekly number of attacks in have dropped to their lowest levels since February of 2006 - just before sectarian war fully blossomed. According to the U.S. military, attacks of all kinds per week nationwide have fallen to roughly 575, down from a high of roughly 1,600 in June. Civilian deaths have fallen by 60% nationwide since then, too. In Baghdad, easily the most violent area of Iraq, a grim measure of the prevailing conditions comes in the count...
...manufacturing and for the large R&D outfit that goes along with making memory cards. "By having it all in close proximity, it reduces overhead costs," says Sandisk president and COO Sanjay Mehrotra, "and that's the name of the game, to be able to produce product at the lowest possible cost." (Notice that had nothing to do with cheap labor...
...week of Thanksgiving also marks the year's lowest volume of searches on the term "diet." And it marks the peak of online searches for the term "depression," perhaps related to the failure to stick with our diets or, more likely, because we're stuck with - or without - our families. The good news, however, is that searches for "depression" and popular antidepressant medications have declined overall since Thanksgiving...