Word: portfolios
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...Japanese government debt by the end of 2001 will amount to around 150% of the country's total economic output, according to Courtis. (U.S. gross federal debt, by contrast, is about half the GDP.) Average Japanese consumers, meanwhile, are still under pressure. Their home value has fallen, their stock portfolio is a disaster, and their life insurer may be about to go bust. In other words, Japanese consumers are not looking to spend. Japan's demographics will help neither consumption patterns nor the search for bold new economic solutions. "In 10 years, Japan will make Florida look juvenile," said Courtis...
...There are some things that are high-profile that are pissing people off," said a senior administrator. "I think Harvey is in the position of being assigned some of the most complicated tasks. That's just what the provost's portfolio...
...negotiations, but it's not clear whether he'll stick around for the unity government. Of course, even if he quits the Labor leadership and resigns as a member of the Knesset, there's still nothing stopping him accepting Sharon's offer to serve as minister of defense - a portfolio he currently occupies alongside being prime minister...
...chatting up the minister while attending services at an African-American church--his Vice President was in the background, less visible but no less crucial to the workings of the new Administration. As a close look at his emerging schedule shows, "Big Time" Cheney's influence is vast, his portfolio unprecedented--just the way his boss wants...
...together. (In addition to the morning briefing and scheduled events, they reunite in the Oval Office every afternoon for economic- and domestic-policy meetings.) But the lunch is important because the two men are completely alone. There they discuss issues like whether some adviser has too broad a portfolio or whether a new Cabinet Secretary can handle a looming challenge...