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...best seller Head to Head, M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow writes, "World trade in the next half-century is apt to grow even faster that it did in the last half-century. Any decline in trade between the blocks will be more than offset by more trade within the blocks...
Make purposeful use of capitals, underlining, positioning and spacing. If you use a typed resume, have it reproduced by photo-offset. Beware of using too small type or reducing a typed resume, as you may also reduce your readership. Use white or ecru paper with matching envelopes and paper for your cover letters. Don't use bright-colored paper-it will overshadow your message and is more likely to land in the waste basket...
Neither Bush nor Clinton would do much to jump-start the economy next year, according to panel members. "There's much ado about nothing here, from a broad economic point of view," said Sinai, noting that the candidates' tax and spending proposals tended to offset each other, leaving little room for stimulus. The Bush program, which is chockablock with spending cuts to pay for | tax reductions, "would make a weak upturn a little weaker," Sinai said, while Clinton's plans "would make a weak upturn no worse, but not really any better." In the long run, he added, "the Clinton...
...Joey is already full of vigorous, upbeat tunes. Why this play needs the added song, except perhaps to offset the weight of the two new ballads, I do not know...
...state's dispute with the feds centers on the mechanism by which Oregon proposed to offset the added cost of its expanded coverage: its now famous rationing system. At the heart of the system is a list of 709 medical conditions ranked in order of seriousness and responsiveness to treatment, from bacterial pneumonia (1) to anencephaly (709). The legislature determined how much the state could afford and then drew a line at item 587 (inflammation of the esophagus). Conditions above the line would be covered for everybody; those below would get no coverage...