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...Forum in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos in late January. The U.S. constitutes about 28% of global gross domestic product as measured in dollars, and it accounted for one-fifth of worldwide growth between 2000 and 2006. So the big question is: If America's growth doesn't pick up significantly, can other countries make up the shortfall? That question has taken on fresh urgency as the once hot U.S. housing market has cooled, putting a chill on the rest of the domestic economy. U.S. GDP growth dropped to 2% in the third quarter, less than half the blistering...
...Paulson thus views his job as something like cajoler-in-chief. He says he has sympathy for Beijing's argument that it must move cautiously. But he also wants the Chinese to pick up the pace, because it's in their own interest to do so. Unless they continue to push reform throughout the economy-especially in a financial sector dominated by bloated state-owned banks that lend lavishly to uncompetitive state enterprises-the cost of dealing with the problem later will balloon. (And the argument is fair enough: it's a lesson the Japanese learned in the 1990s when...
...Basically, they were trying to pick a fight,” said Paik, who is also a Crimson photography editor. “I told them I didn’t want to fight. I think what pissed them off the most was I said, ‘Look, I don’t have time for this...
...They get the big bonanza," as one Sunni bitterly put it. Anbar, Ramadi, Fallujah and much of the upper Euphrates Valley are practically a solid Sunni green now. There are still mixed towns and provinces here and there, but it's just a matter of time before their minorities pick up and leave for the security of their...
...Sifers said. “I’m not really a big goal scorer, so when they go in, I get a little extra excited. Last time we played Dartmouth, they got on top of us early and it deflated us. It was good to pick up the energy of the game like that.”In net for Harvard, Martin turned away 39 shots, including 18 in the third period. While freshman Cristina Kessler started in between the posts last time against the Big Green, Stone choose Martin for Friday night’s game to give...