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...China has suffered previous boom-and-bust cycles in its transition from communism to capitalism. In 1994, GDP growth exceeded 11% and inflation soared to 24%. To restore economic stability, the then Vice Premier and central bank governor Zhu Rongji choked off bank loans to cool runaway borrowing and spending. The subsequent slowdown threw millions of mainlanders out of work, but because China was relatively isolated from the global economy, few other countries shared the pain. Today, a sharp contraction in China would have much wider impact. The mainland is one of the world's largest manufacturing bases...
...other budget carriers, Southwest and America West, took three of the four top slots. Fourteen airlines were evaluated on services like on-time arrivals, based on data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. "In the late '90s, the big airlines said to their customers, 'You have to be a premier traveler or we're not going to care about you much,'" says Wichita State marketing professor Dean Headley, who co-authored this year's report with Brent Bowen of the University of Nebraska. "[No-frills carriers] told passengers, 'We're going to get you from here to there--with your...
Brotemarkle out-dueled two of the Ivy League’s premier pitchers in Snyder and Penn’s Lindsey Parmar...
...years now, the grade-inflation hot seat has been almost exclusively Harvard’s to fill. Unflattering articles, television spots, even “20/20” maestro John Stossel have all lamented the steady rise in marks at America’s premier academic institution. But last Wednesday, Princeton grabbed some headlines of its own when the university announced its plan to deal with grade inflation at its New Jersey campus. We are glad that other schools are finally admitting that they, too, give out a lot of A’s—the PR problem...
...scholarship has historically been extremely competitive and one of the premier undergraduate awards...