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...importantly, a double victory would further strengthen the CDU's position in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the German parliament, making it harder for Schröder's coalition with the Greens to push through economic reforms. Since his re-election, Schröder has seen his popularity plummet because of rising unemployment, labor unrest and a gaping budget deficit. "Should the SPD lose," says Heinz Theisen, a political scientist at Cologne's Catholic Technical College, "Schröder will have no choice but to enter into an informal coalition with the CDU if he wants to be able...
...trading paper instead of building businesses. He came by his views honestly, via Midland, Texas, where he had struggled and ultimately failed in the oil business in the 1980's, and had watched as investment bankers fled, taking their cash with them, as soon as crude prices began to plummet. As recently as last July, Bush was sharing his dim view of Wall Street with the world. "When I used to watch the stocks in Midland," he said, "I was somewhat skeptical about what was taking place on the floors of these exchanges. They'll buy you or sell...
While rains of hot iron plummet to the surface of OGLE-TR-56b, which is roughly the size of Jupiter, astronomers hope that this new, more direct technique can now be used to find earth-sized planets with raindrops of water...
...Truculent bureaucrats aren't the only force arrayed against Shang. Ordinary Chinese who bought shares at the government's urging now fear that stock-market reforms will drive prices down even further. After all, they've seen how stocks plummet when government investigators target a company on suspicion of corruption. Some shareholder advocates say the CSRC's proposed reforms should actually be shelved because the policies will hurt the widows and orphans who spent their last fen on stocks. "The government sold shares to the people for far too much money, and it can't let the market...
...honest and hard-working—will be replaced by suspicion as teachers feel justified to crack down. Positive interactions with teachers will become much rarer as they devote more time to administrative reprisal; when students see professors as adversaries rather than partners in education, office hours attendance will plummet...