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Gosh, this feels good. Almost inexplicably, an economy that looked rotten two weeks ago has suddenly turned super. Construction, factories, services, retailing--you name the tune and it's got an upbeat tempo. The latest twist came Friday, when the Labor Department reported net job creation for the first time in seven months and a drop in the unemployment rate to 5.5% in February, from 5.6% the month before. Normally, unemployment continues to drift higher for a few months after a recovery starts. This could be the beginning of one of the quickest job rebounds ever...
MALEVOLENT: (while starting a nuclear war) No! Those rotten do-gooders on the Katz Committee made us promise to pay you a wage between $10.83 and $11.30, so stop whining about our $11.00 deal. Even PSLM-types can’t complain that we aren’t offering a living wage...
...problem - an excuse for not acting. "Because we can do nothing, that's what we'll do. And that will only make things worse." Like the individuals who draw on their savings accounts to pay the rent and buy food, Japan is tossing money at propping up rotten banks and failing companies, building highways to nowhere and becoming poorer by the day. "If the situation continues for another five or 10 years," predicts Sakakibara, "then Japan will drop out of the group of developed countries." Japan now faces its toughest manufacturing challenge in decades: it must manufacture a future...
...born into the faith who feel oppressed by societies that treat them like second-class relics of European colonialism. Islam also promises something to converts-like Reid and Courtailler-who feel marginalized by modern life. For Europeans, the presence of the terrorist networks should suggest that there is something rotten within their rich societies...
...money. She's not even one of those East German judges who used to fight the Cold War from high above the Olympic ice. But she is the face of the scandal that's ending the week as everyone's top story. Suddenly all of figure skating smells rotten, and the sport's all-powerful judges are faceless no more...