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...sustain solid growth, the sources of demand need to be rebalanced. The current recovery has been fueled by business investment more than any recovery since the 1950s. But investment cannot grow faster than GDP indefinitely. The second pillar of the recovery has been a rising trade surplus, fueled by strong growth in the U.S. and China and the lowest price-adjusted value of the yen since 1986. That, too, has limits...
...Alliance will need to sustain that outlook if plans for rebuilding a viable Afghan society free of the Taliban are to be realized. "We will have [attacks of this kind] for a long time," warns Karzai. "The enemy is defeated, but it is not eliminated. The elimination part is what we should continue to work on. And that needs patience. That needs perseverance and that needs hard work...
...senior Administration official said the President was simply saying he recognizes that the protracted war on terrorism inevitably takes a toll on the public. "He wasn't saying there's some kind of crisis of confidence," the official said. "Just the opposite: he believes Americans have the ability to sustain a long struggle." But Bush's comment reflected the increased pessimism about Iraq that is seeping through the Administration. "It's a little hard for us to keep saying there'll be good days and bad days when they're all bad days," an aide said, moping...
...mystery and power. And though he has a decided sense of humor--one early work was a simple rainbow created in a spray of mist--minimalist performance-art jokes are the least of what he has in mind. What Eliasson cares about are the ways we create and sustain our own realities and the part played by shared experience in the tantalizing fabrication we call life. He likes to call his works "devices for experiencing reality...
...drawled, "If anybody wants to put me into perpetual servitude on the basis of that remuneration, I shall be prepared to consider it.") No, it was about the power that a paternalist organization wanted to keep holding over the actors it saw as its pampered children. I protect you, sustain you, give you this generous allowance - why won't you be home by eight...