Word: pasts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...investors rushed back into greenbacks. On Friday afternoon, stock markets made something of a recovery as analysts took a second look at what Dubai's proposed repayment halt means. Eighty billion dollars - Dubai's total liabilities - may sound like a lot of money but in the context of the past year, it's not huge. And while banks like HSBC and Barclays have billions in exposure to Dubai, they are also better capitalized than they were a year ago, and thus more able to withstand hits of this size. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
...estate market, leaving developers like Nakheel struggling to finish projects and pay suppliers. Speculators fled, and thousands of expatriates and locals who had bought into the dream were left owning unfinished condos or houses they could not sell. Residential real estate prices have fallen by almost half in the past year, the deepest decline anywhere in the world. (Read: "How Wall Street's Bust Threatens Dubai's Boom...
...From a traffic perspective, there were more people in the malls than in years past," he says. However, it's not yet known if traffic translated into big sales, as this data will not be available until later this weekend...
TIME: Admitting errors, taking a pragmatic, results-based approach, those are not things Africa's liberation movements have always been good at. In fact, as their time in power goes on, many have become more vociferous in blaming their mistakes on the past and old enemies. I'm thinking particularly of Zimbabwe. Are you jettisoning that liberation movement baggage? Zuma: Nobody can deny that when Zanu-PF [Robert's Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front] came on the scene, there was a lot of delivery, in health and remarkably in education. But what they lacked is what...
...have to do things differently. We cannot say after 15, 20 years that we cannot resolve our issues. This is about our capacity to adapt to new conditions, to analysts what are the new challenges. That's what the ANC is doing right now. We are just past the stage where we might have turned into something else - and where we might have fallen. I think that, instead, we have jumped forward...