Word: lowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think that China's economy will soon boil over simply because it's growing at about 8% to 9% a year. Japan, he pointed out, averaged a growth rate of about 10% for 25 years during its big developmental leap starting in the 1950s. China's inflation is relatively low, and a huge surplus of workers in China keeps the labor market humming--and cheap. The starting salary of an average Chinese college graduate today is one-third lower than it was three years ago, Fang said, and 30% or more of graduates can't find jobs despite...
...Fang, warned against excessive focus on currency. Governments, particularly in France and Germany, need to continue reforming their economies to boost productivity, reduce the relatively high cost of labor and find better investment uses for a huge pool of savings that is sitting in bank accounts that yield very low returns. France's savings rate is higher even than Japan's. "The strength of the euro highlights European structural problems; it doesn't cause them," Blanque said...
...London, Paris, Rome." The Rialto (starting at $263 a night) is tailored to that kind of visitor. Poland's first boutique hotel, it opened last year as an alternative to the other five-star hotels and has since won acclaim for its spare, Art Deco decor and excellent cuisine. Low-cost airlines such as Air Polonia can take travelers into Warsaw from London for as little as $30 for a round trip...
...long hauls, the flight attendants are trained to keep an eye out for passengers who aren't handling the flight well: then the crew will engage them in conversation, offer them a drink or something to eat--all designed to lower the travelers' stress level. My stress was so low I decided I had to sleep. I easily dropped off and caught a four-hour nap. The cleverly designed seats have a headrest that bends to form a kind of a pillow: no embarrassing head drops onto your neighbor's shoulder...
...digital 1s and 0s run at different frequencies. Manassas uses a fiber-optic network to carry data from its central Internet servers to the medium-voltage lines that run underground or overhead along residential streets. Special hardware clamped to every transformer helps the Internet signal jump to the low-voltage lines that disappear inside individual homes...