Word: sharp
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...depression which sits just on the other side of a rapidly deepening global recession. Deflation could conceivably make economic matters worse by enticing businesses and consumers to delay purchases based on hopes that prices for goods and services will keep falling. But, there is a potential benefit to a sharp drop in the value of almost everything...
...price momentum. Cross-shareholdings, a mainstay of traditional Japanese business practice in which companies hold shares of other firms to cement friendly relationships, make stock-price losses a broadly shared pain. Not only are Japan's megabanks involved in cross-shareholding; auto and electronics manufacturers like Toyota, Nissan and Sharp are too. Companies and financial groups own about 20% of the shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange...
...professor, starts off discussing a government plan to combine health care and homeland security. "Now, instead of sending you to the doctor, they send you through airport security," he says. "On my way out here, it was established that my shoes had no plastic explosives, my bag had no sharp objects and my prostate was cancer-free...
...hide and a log as your pillow). But my homestay sister Monika had no qualms about pushing me, punching me, kicking me or spooning me. And it didn’t take long before I learned to push back. With Monika’s arm around me, and two sharp elbows at my disposal, I managed to hold my ground. Come November, when the rains began, I would be long gone, but Monika would still be sleeping there as the rain pounded down outside the hut. It would be her first rainy season as a woman. Monika took...
...ready to promise her vote, but others apparently were. Enough Democrats left Tuesday's meeting ready to support Obama that Senate majority leader Harry Reid afterward told reporters, "I think we will get the necessary votes" to block the resolution in a vote expected on Thursday. It was a sharp change from earlier in the morning, when his office had expressed doubts that they had the votes, even though Dems, who hold 58 seats right now, only need to produce a simple majority of 50. "We can all look back and talk about how the first $350 billion...