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...both cases you have a deteriorating spiral process in the Middle East, in which Israel finds itself caught up,” Oren said...
...sports—like Brandi’s team won the World Cup or anything, or that a woman could compete in a PGA event against multi-ethnic cutie and millionaire Tiger Woods. Clearly, most females aren’t able to dribble a basketball or throw a perfect spiral. It’s genetic, what with our two X chromosomes lacking the sports gene carried on the Y. Those few women who can, well, who are we joking—they must be lesbians. All the other females stick with finesse sports like tennis, because it?...
...Unfortunately, this new deflation-busting zeal may be nothing more than a reformist fad that mistakes a symptom for the disease. No doubt Japan is experiencing deflation. But with consumer prices falling less than 1% annually for the past four years, it's hardly a deflationary spiral. In fact, much of the price decline stems from increased competition in newly deregulating industries, such as telecom and retailing. What's more, falling prices are generally good for consumers and businesses alike if they come with productivity gains that allow companies to preserve profits even as they cut costs. So today...
...contradict him, saying "no military option's been taken off the table, although we have no intention of attacking North Korea as a nation." Korea analyst Leon Sigal, whose book Disarming Strangers chronicles the first nuclear crisis, says U.S. intransigence and North Korea's belligerence equal "a very dangerous spiral...
...explicitly ruled out such an arrangement after last September's parliamentary elections. But the stakes are too high to reject cooperation now. Unless Germany reforms its economy, the country risks falling into a Japanese-style slump of little or no growth and a downward spiral of deflation. An early casualty of this forced coalition will be Schröder's proposed new taxes - including increased levies on company cars and dog food - designed to help close an j18 billion budget deficit. "Most of these taxes are now dead," says Holger Schmieding, European economist at the Bank of America, since...