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...market is missing the point. Sure, the invigorated business world is producing the first whiffs of inflation since the Internet bubble, a turn that all but guarantees that the Federal Reserve will raise short-term interest rates this summer. In so doing, the Fed will bring down the curtain on a long easy-money period that has been marked by 0% car loans and giveaway mortgage rates. But for that to be bad news, rates would have to jump dramatically--and fast. A sharp spike in rates could kill the housing market, shut down business spending and slow the economy...
...While short-term solutions to alleviate traffic include public shuttle buses and the elimination of parking on the often clogged North Harvard Street, long term plans call for a makeover of Allston’s major thoroughfare, Western Avenue...
...most despondent about reduced demand from the mainland-are philosophical. China's big appetite resulted in supply shortages and inventory disruptions. A respite from the insatiable dragon will give them an opportunity to reload. Says a spokeswoman for POSCO, Korea's largest steel company, "These constraints will have a short-term negative influence, but long-term, this is actually progress." Likewise, Japan's and Korea's giant electronics conglomerates are sanguine. Toshiba, for example, sold $1.3 billion worth of goods in China last year, so "obviously we are concerned about a drop in sales," says Junichi Nagaki, a spokesman...
...company had lost $1 billion in the first quarter of 2003. "We had no cash, no flight attendants' deal, no access to the [financial] markets, no real understanding by our employees or Wall Street of where we needed to take the company," says Arpey, 45. Forget about the short-term cash-flow problem of a $20 billion company with just $1 billion in the bank and debt payments coming due, he says. "We had a long-term 'Where is the company going?' crisis...
...what she wanted: the pro-gay side goes into that case with the p.r. armor of 6,044 happy newlyweds. Those who oppose same-sex marriage must now argue against rights already granted. "I give them credit for achieving that beachhead," says the G.O.P.'s Mannix. "But will that short-term objective be worth weakening their long-term objectives...