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Longer-range, the worries for the U.S. economy are more global than homegrown. Japan is the major world trouble spot. Since 1990, it has suffered from sluggish output growth, a stock-market depression and a credit crunch. Now chaos in Southeast Asia endangers Japan's exports and loans to the area. Japanese investors, desperate to raise cash, might someday dump holdings of American securities; that would knock down stock and bond prices and shoot up U.S. interest rates. Weinberg sees a 1-in-100, but rising, chance of that happening--but contrasts that with a 1-in-1 million risk...
...with the audience, and we are able to see what the film could have become in the hands of actors better suited to their roles and to one another. Unfortunately, the bulk of the movie is weighed down both by the actors' slightly unsympathetic characterizations and by its sluggish pacing...
Harvard's defensive effort was uncharacteristically sluggish, however, as evidenced by the 80 points the Crimson allowed...
...dread scenario goes something like this: the emerging Asian economies--Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines--either slow sharply or sink into recession, and the ills spread throughout the rest of Asia, including Japan, which ships nearly half its exports to those countries. Japan's already sluggish economy buckles further, and because it is America's third largest trading partner, its difficulties are felt in the U.S., and ultimately throughout the world...
...University legendary for the boistrous and vociferous opinions of its students, undergraduate participation in yesterday's citywide election seemed sluggish...