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...hope has now been crushed under an increasing tide of grimmer and grimmer statistics that seem to portray an economy in free fall. China will have its hard landing in 2009, and even the most optimistic economists now concede that GDP growth will be far below the 8% annual pace that Chinese economists and officials generally regard as the minimum necessary for the preservation of social order, possibly hitting 5% or under...
...With the price of a barrel of oil hovering in the $45 range and natural gas cut in half from a high of $14 per thousand cubic feet, the domestic energy sector is now at a critical "tipping point," Perryman says. If prices dip lower, he adds, the pace of the slowdown will quicken as domestic oil and gas fields that demand expensive, high-technology drilling methods will be shut. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...allows the U.S. to tie up the loose ends. It's brilliant: it allows the U.S. to do something it had always wanted it to do. It also makes the E.U. look proactive, showing it is not just waiting for the Obama Administration to come in and set the pace...
...Senate is not to everyone's tastes either. One of those who discovered that it wasn't, ironically enough, was Robert F. Kennedy. When he held the very seat to which Caroline now aspires, R.F.K. bristled at its aggravatingly slow pace, as well as the reality that junior members, no matter how famous, are expected to wait their turn. That, Caroline Kennedy may discover, is the difference between running for the Senate and serving there...
...remember the stage twinkling because of all the glass from the bottles that had been thrown at us.” Still, constructing a band biography out of interviews has its pitfalls. Whereas a biography written as a singular narrative has a well thought out pace and flow, interviews have no such inherent rhythm. Regrettably, the interviews in “The Clash,” organized chronologically, do not have very much continuity. One moment the band will be discussing the heroin addiction and subsequent firing of drummer Nick “Topper” Headon and the next...