Word: rafts
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...Another raft of economic data Tuesday, another snapshot of where the U.S. economy may be heading - and maybe some conflicting signals. Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in March, with inflation cooling further after February's 0.3 percent jump. The ice cube, again, was energy prices, which can be taken as a sign that either the slowdown is cooling off demand or low gas prices will fuel the consumer comeback this summer. Maybe both...
...knows: his oil-field buddies (mirrors of himself), corporate executives and captains of industry, from the Halliburton honcho to the Terminix franchisee. Some of them contributed mightily to his campaign; all are "dynamic entrepreneurs," as he likes to say, who have made America great--despite laboring under a raft of pesky government regulations. They have his gratitude...
...Blown's Mayday message began gathering, the Chinese government warned colonial Hong Kong's British administration that no military aircraft were to approach the accident scene. The message was acknowledged but ignored. That afternoon a U.S. Navy Albatross amphibian from Clark Field in the Philippines landed beside the raft and flew the survivors to Hong Kong...
...manufacturers' lives even more miserable than normal. As Japan tries to export its way out of deflation, bank insolvency and crushing consumer gloom without setting off the competitive-devaluation dominoes in Asia, Wall Street - apparently more than Greenspan - fears the U.S. is in no shape to play life raft this time around...
...city's middle class. But in the late '90s, Shanghai's building boom went bust. With occupancy rates plummeting to a dismal 35% in some areas, real-estate developers panicked. So did the city government, which had counted on a buoyant real-estate sector. Desperate, city planners offered a raft of incentives for local companies and foreign banks to relocate to Pudong. Then, in Shanghai proper, they began tearing down old row houses in one of the city's few remaining historic neighborhoods to make way for a giant 230,000 sq m park. Many of the dislocated families...