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...than doubling over the last decade to $2.6 trillion, and Britons' rate of saving at its lowest level since the 1960s, rising interest rates will hit pocketbooks hard. The CBI, a business lobby group, expects consumer spending to grow 2.8% this year. Next year, it says, that figure could slip to 2.1%. Economic growth won't escape unharmed, either. The threat of rising rates triggering a downturn is "greater today than it has been in the 10 years Labour have been in power," says Adrian Cooper, managing director of consultants Oxford Economics. So while economists are penciling in growth...
...businesses aren't feeling the pinch. U.K. listed firms issued more profit warnings in the first half of this year than in any same period since the dotcom blowout. Even in the City, London's fiercely competitive financial center, the number of new jobs is set to slip by two-thirds this year, according to the capital's Centre for Economics and Business Research. But despite the doom and gloom, there's still room enough for specialist sectors to grow handsomely. London's leading share of international markets means Britain's financial services sector should still grow by 4.7% this...
...Italy, vulgar expressions are used rather frequently on national TV (not just cable). Even before this week's ruling, comedian and activist Beppe Grillo had declared Sept. 8 "Vaffanculo Day" to organize a protest against the sclerotic political establishment. Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lets vulgar expressions slip out in public about twice a year. Still, with Italy's deep Catholic roots, profanity that takes God's or Christ's name in vain is widely frowned upon, and has cost several public figures their jobs...
...lives will end, and if this is the case, then why not give our life to Islam?" The battle lasts six hours and claims the lives of four students (Aman survives), a policeman and several bystanders. At one stage, I take advantage of a lull to slip out the back to the street. Another young student, Amma Adeem, speaks to me at the gate: "Tell them how angry we are. Write in your story how willing we are to die for our cause." It doesn't sound like rhetoric anymore. It sounds like a promise...
...friend seeking a favor that Congressmen were "honorable men who could not be bribed, but they discern much more clearly the justice of a case, when they have dined and supped well in pleasant company." When the war started, the Union politicians who continued to sup with Greenhow let slip intelligence that she passed along in complicated code to rebel generals...