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...relaxed restrictions on its citizens to visit the territory, and granted Hong Kong businesses easier access to the mainland. These measures have helped buoy the city's economy: GDP was up 6% in the first quarter year-on-year, and unemployment is down to 5.9% from a historic peak of 8.8% in 2003. People are again indulging in Hong Kong's favorite pastimes: shopping, job-hopping and flipping flats. Consumer confidence has led to confidence in the government. Only 23.5% of those surveyed in a poll conducted by the University of Hong Kong last week said they were dissatisfied with...
...Compare and Contrast If you're not traveling until peak season, save money by comparing rates on discount travel sites such as Hotwire. And don't forget to check the rental-agency sites...
...company's growth is slowing--Wall Street projects its five-year growth rate at 8%, vs. the industry's 14%--and its share price, after a dramatic run-up last year that pushed the company's market value past that of General Electric, is now off its peak by 16%, at a recent $54. Yet the cash hoard just keeps growing, rising $7 billion in the first quarter alone. "A lot of investors might think that share buybacks and dividends and paying down debt are the way to go," says Robb Parlanti, a senior portfolio manager at Turner Investment Partners...
...decade '70s. Five years into the 21st century, we're in trouble. The current decade doesn't even have a nickname (the zeros? the aughts? the uh-ohs?), let alone a cultural personality. And Hollywood isn't helping. The film industry, especially in the four-month peak-viewing period called summer, rarely tries squarely addressing Zeitgeist anxieties. Instead it ransacks its attic for sequels, spin-offs and, this year, remakes. You don't look forward to many of the new season's blockbuster hopefuls. You look backward...
...nice people," says Anne, a Sydney Year 1 teacher. "We're nurturers. We like children. We respond to courtesy, not cutthroat corporate behavior." Fionie Stavert, an organizer with the N.S.W. Teachers Federation, says she's cynical enough to believe that in certain parts of Sydney parental complaints about teachers peak during rainy spells - the mothers have missed out on their tennis so they gossip about teachers over coffee instead. Stavert credits most teachers with enormous restraint: one, she recalls, barely flinched when told by a mother: "You are a public servant and I expect you to serve...