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...while sales have climbed, economists say the government has yet to push through the sort of reforms that would make consumer spending a solid economic pillar. Chinese are still among the world's biggest savers, in part because of the lack of good public systems for retirement pensions and health insurance. "Most economists think they've overdone investment and underdone consumption and spending for social welfare," says Stephen Green, the Shanghai-based head of research for Standard Chartered Bank. "There will be a price to pay. No one knows how big that will be. The bet is they'll grow...
...Union, trade between Russia and China remained slow. In recent years it has expanded rapidly, from $10.7 billion in 2001 to $56.9 billion in 2008. "Half of that is energy," says Zweig. "Energy is a very important component of the bilateral trade relationship. In many ways, it is a pillar." These days, it's a much more sturdy pillar than ideology...
...person testimony." "Never feel guilty about reading; it's what you do to do what you do." "Never join a pile-on, but it's O.K. to start one." And this: When I told him his column was great, he said, "It's not a column, it's a pillar...
...will go down as 2009’s unlikeliest record. Its story begins in 2000 with the breakup of psych-pop revivalists The Olivia Tremor Control, who, throughout the 90s, had—along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel—served as a pillar of the Elephant Six Recording Co., a sprawling collective of indie rock bands based in Athens, Ga. With two of that decade’s finest albums—1996’s “Dusk at Cubist Castle” and 1999’s “Black...
...Vice President last month, in defiance of the Supreme Leader, the Revolutionary Guards quickly put him in his place, warning that his political future was "dependent on his acceptance of velayat-e faqih [or rule by the clergy, the founding tenet of the Iranian theocracy and the chief pillar of the Supreme Leader's power]." Some members of the opposition, already worried that the IRGC is writing the script current events, wonder if the Guards did not pre-plan the entire crackdown. They point out that four days before the presidential election, the Guards' weekly newspaper, Sobhe Sadeq, warned...