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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fifth its normal flow. On Wednesday, it cut the supply entirely. By then, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Croatia and Bosnia all reported a virtual shutoff in gas deliveries, and a resulting shortage in homes and businesses. So did Bulgaria, where the chill of the Russian gas cut was so swift - and where reserves are so low - that officials said they would consider restarting an unused nuclear power plant to compensate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Gazprom Diplomacy: Turning Off Europe's Heat | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

Pancreatic cancer could also cause protein loss during the digestive process, Lustig says, which would suggest a recurrence of the malignant tumor that Jobs battled 2004. It is unlikely, however, that Jobs' original cancer has spread, Lustig says. Since pancreatic cancer is so swift and deadly, "We have to assume he was cured of that," Lustig says. "If he weren't, he would have been dead years ago." But having developed one endocrine tumor increases the patient's risk for developing a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Ailing Steve Jobs? Medical Opinion Varies | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...blame them for what's happening, it's coming from outside China," says Cheng Li, a China scholar at Washington's Brookings Institute. Li points out that, as it has been at pains to point out regularly in the official media, the government's reaction has been swift and decisive, including everything from announcing a 4 trillion renminbi ($587 billion) stimulus package, repeatedly lowering interest rates and taking substantive moves to bolster the property market and encourage consumer spending. "They've done everything right so far and very fast," says one western diplomat in Beijing. "Often it's been bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Financial Crisis Bring Upheaval to China? | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve lineup: JONAS BROTHERS, TAYLOR SWIFT and LIONEL RICHIE. One of these things is not like the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Chrysler: "By the end of 2008 [from 2007], Chrysler will have separated over 32,000 employees, including 5,000 white collar employees who left the company just this past Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Cost cutting has been substantial, swift and wide-ranging. Nothing has been viewed as 'sacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM, Ford and Chrysler's Bailout Plans | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

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