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Credit Fukui's success to unconventional thinking. His predecessor, Masaru Hayami, frequently claimed there was little he could do to stoke Japan's economic fires after he lowered interest rates to zero. But Fukui has boldly set out a series of unorthodox monetary-easing programs designed to counteract the country's crippling six-year bout of deflation, flooding the nation with cash. "Fukui has been activist and interventionist," says Shuji Shirota, an economist at the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein investment bank in Tokyo. Fukui's efforts are having an impact: consumer-price deflation slowed to 0.3% last year, compared with...
...campaign. Regardless of the Dean campaign’s intrinsic merits, or even of Dean’s own personal appeal, his campaign resonated with what his advisers optimistically termed “Generation Dean.” If Kerry can capture that energy and enthusiasm, stoke it, and harness it, he will surely benefit in November while doing an invaluable service for the country that transcends his own political fortunes. In fact, we strongly encourage all politicians, from across the political spectrum, to genuinely reach out to youth voters. President George W. Bush himself can likely benefit from attempts...
...they struggled to explain the unnerving drop-off in Shi'ite support for the occupation, some U.S. officials suggested a familiar foe might be helping to stoke the uprising. "We know the Iranians have been meddling," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters last week. "And it's unhelpful to have neighboring countries meddling in the affairs of Iraq...
...speak to the nation or preach to the choir. The urge to preach may be overwhelming. The number of undecided voters is minuscule, about 5% in most polls. Activists in both parties--Karl Rove and Howard Dean, for example--argue that the surest path to victory is to stoke the base, keep the partisans engaged and angry, and deal with those wimpy undecideds by tearing down the opposition with negative...
...Mountaineering Club (HMC) President Aram Marks ’04 represented Harvard with fellow HMC members Janie N. Kucera ’04 and Josh A. Neff ’07, all for the first time. Though none of the three placed in the event, they used it to stoke a rivalry with their neighbor down the river...