Word: slowness
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...budget. Should the state A) raise taxes or B) cut spending? Democrats, who control two-thirds of the legislature, say the answer is both of the above. But Governor Jodi Rell, a Republican, says raising taxes is the wrong choice. On prudence, Rell scores high: Raising taxes will slow the recovery, so the state should cut spending instead...
...this instant-gratification box-office era, that fully half of the weekend's winning movies have been around for a while: The Hangover in its fourth week, Up in its fifth, Night at the Museum 2 in its sixth, the graybeard Star Trek in its eighth, and the slow-release Away We Go finally breaking into the Top 10 in its fourth week. That mild comedy, about a couple finding that they are way more wonderful and sensitive than most of their friends and relatives, should be advertised with a smug-alert warning, but it's the one indie movie...
...nonperforming loans were up 30% in 2008 compared with the previous year. Even though some Asian economies, chiefly China and India, appear to have passed through the worst of the downturn, analysts still doubt StanChart can repeat 2008's performance this year. Brokerage CLSA predicts pretax profit growth will slow to 4% in 2009. Reflecting the heightened risk, Standard & Poor's in late April revised its outlook for the bank to negative. "The biggest single worry is the economies in the region," says Nick Hill, bank credit analyst at Standard & Poor's in London. "We think they've taken measures...
...other areas, progress has been slow. In 2005, Masondo announced that by 2009 he planned to rehouse all 215,000 families living in shacks. That deadline has passed, but the shantytowns are not gone. In May 2008 they erupted in riots that killed 62 people and displaced...
Still, Knox's words may yet work against her. Her rosy depiction of the roommates' relationship contradicted testimony from Kercher's friends that the two didn't get along. Speculating on Kercher's slow death--pathologists say she choked on her own blood--Knox called it "yucky, disgusting" and mimicked sounds of choking in a manner that seemed to startle jurors. When asked if she ever thought about the victim, Knox was less than sympathetic. "In the end, I knew her for a month," she said. "And first of all, I'm trying to get on with my life...