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...strategy could backfire. In an economy like Hong Kong's, an increase in the interest rates will hurt the all important property owners, whose companies dominate the stock market and owe billions to the banks. It raises the fear that, as in Japan, real estate deflation could undermine the whole fragile structure. If that happened, the tremors that shook the world's financial markets last week would seem as placid as a sail on a junk in Hong Kong harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATCHING THE ASIAN FLU | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

Jiang: Some nights I cannot get to sleep--for instance, when natural disasters occur. Despite modern science and technology in agriculture, we still mainly depend on how the weather goes. I owe a lot of special thanks to my wife. She tends to persuade me that, after all, I have to eat and try to get some sleep because the next day I have to continue working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. AND CHINA: UPS AND DOWNS | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...owe it to the people of Nigeria, the people of the Amazon, who could not be here today, to do our best to draw attention to Shell's 100 years of destruction," he added...

Author: By Mans O. Larsson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shell's 100th Celebrated on the Steps of Widener | 10/21/1997 | See Source »

Sure, hitting Boston's tech museums may not be quite as much fun as beachcombing on Cape Ann. If you haven't visited the Computer Museum or the Museum of Science, though, you owe yourself a trip...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Interactive Computer Museum | 10/7/1997 | See Source »

...free to pursue other presidential duties, like raising money to help pay off the $15 million debt his party still faces from the last election. Last week he picked up $850,000 at fund raisers in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Houston. The Republicans, better provided for under the present system, owe $4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GANG'S ALL HERE | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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