Word: pacificism
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Hong Kong's governor and other politicians and scholars debate the island's prospects in the debut issue of the Harvard Asia Pacific Review, published this week.
Such failures mean that the CPI overstates inflation approximately 1 percentage point. "A similar error in navigation," says Moynihan, "would send your plane to the South Pacific instead of Seattle." Even so, how big is 1%? Plenty big. The CPI now rises at somewhat under 3% a year. Take off...
With China foreign policy, it is as with the magician: always keep your eye on the other hand. An ASEAN meeting in Paris of Asia-Pacific powers concluded pleasantly last week with quick resolution of the membership status of China and Taiwan. The document accords Taiwan inferior membership in the...
This month, after almost a year of buildup, Mattel is rolling out a line of seven interactive products led by three Barbie programs. Analyst John Taylor of Arcadia Investment expects Barbie to be among the top software entertainment programs this Christmas. Unlike such shoot-'em-up, beat-'em-up boy...
The merger would be just the latest deal in a telecommunications free-for-all that was triggered by the February deregulation of the U.S. industry. A sequence of megadeals quickly followed, including Bell Atlantic's tying the knot with NYNEX and SBC Communications' purchasing Pacific Telesis.