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...preliminary report on retail sales for July showed them rising by an anemic .4%, indicating Americans are buying at a slower pace than in the spring, when sales were already lackluster. Administration planners had been counting on a consumer-spending spree to lead the economy to a 5% growth rate in the second half of the year...
This ambitious scheme has got off to a somewhat stumbling and chaotic start. State bankers at the end of 1984 overused their new authority and went on such a wild lending spree that the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, had to tell them to stop. Factory bosses, in contrast, widely complain that they are still waiting for confirmation from local party and government officials that they can begin exercising the new freedoms they supposedly were granted at the start of 1985. For the first time, Deng is proposing to crimp seriously the powers and privileges...
...rapid government spending. Denmark's major problem is a widening trade deficit, which is increasing the country's foreign debt. Norway has been enjoying growth rates of more than 3%, largely because of oil exports, but now is running into trouble. Norwegians have been on a consumer spending spree that is pushing up prices and wages. Finland, according to Lundgren, is the Japan of Western Europe. It had 4% growth last year and is expected to have only slightly less...
Harvard’s concerted effort to expand its holdings in Allston dates back to at least 1988, when Harvard began a secret 52-acre, $88 million buying spree. When Harvard disclosed those purchases in 1997, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino called it “total arrogance.” Even a Harvard spokesman called it a “breach of trust...
...auto upholsterer in this fall's indie The Hawk Is Dying), but really, he'll do anything. "I love that up-at-2-a.m.-and-a-bizarre-movie-comes-on feeling," says Giamatti. "I enjoy being in those things." One of them, Duets, a 2000 karaoke-road-trip killing-spree film that the New York Times said "flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor," was actually not bad enough for his taste. "In the script there was bloodshed and incest and karaoke. I thought, This is great!" He sighs: "They ruined it in the edit...