Word: minimum
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Still, the evidence of recovery is at best mixed. One prominent Japanese economist, Johsen Takahashi of the Mitsubishi Research Institute, remains a bear. He does not believe the economy can grow at the 1.75%-a-year rate the government predicts as a minimum for the rest of the decade; but even if it did, that would set average growth for the whole decade at just 1.5%. "We are at a crossroads," says Takahashi. "If we reform through measures like deregulation, we might end up with something like the American economy. But if we don't, we could go the route...
These days, my machine is down to the bare minimum. For the first week since the crash, I just opened e-mail over the network, and left my hard drive blank-hoping that somehow the spirit of thing would return in the night and everything would be the way it used to be. A few days ago, I finally brought myself to install Word again, realizing that my teaching fellows would not exactly buy the excuse that I could not turn in my response paper because I was having a computer mourning period...
...Crimson jumped out of the gates for four runs in the bottom of the first inning and never looked back, as Cupp pitched to only four batters over the minimum...
...INSECURITY GOT YOU DOWN? WORried about all those new dead-end, low-pay McJobs that masquerade as gainful employment? Maybe the U.S. should look to Europe, where unions are still muscular, minimum wages high, and most workers insulated from the brutal hire-and-fire culture that characterizes mid-1990s America...
Europeans point to underemployment--those low-paying McJobs again--as a gnawing American problem. France's $8-an-hour minimum makes America's $4.25 look cheesy. (President Clinton is proposing a 21% increase, to $5.15, over two years; expect a fight.) No Frenchman works for less, but that means many aren't working at all. Joblessness among young people, hit hardest by minimum-wage laws, is roughly twice France's overall unemployment rate of nearly...