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...growth targets. Because Japan was operating far below full capacity in 2002, a big spurt of demand could produce good growth figures for a while as the economy got back to full capacity. The government says full capacity has now been reached, and going forward, sustaining growth will be tougher. The working-age population will fall by around 0.7% during 2005-2010 and 1.1% during 2010-2015. Not only will each worker have to support more retirees as a result, the only source for GDP growth will be productivity growth. The government's goal is 2.2% real growth per year...
...outside world. It's a struggle that has already found her an audience in France, where pioneering publishing house Actes Sud translated her first novel, Plains of Promise, and a collection of her short stories, The Pact of the Rainbow Snake. But being heard in her homeland proved tougher. "I often realized that nobody could accompany me in my travels, as I often took an alternative path?the perilous one," the author writes in her Actes Sud-commissioned essay, Croire en l'incroyable (Believe the Unbelievable). "It was not necessarily the shortest one, but I felt that...
...spite of a Security Council resolution approving a larger, tougher U.N. peacekeeping force, the government of Sudan refuses to allow Blue Helmets on its soil. When the Bush Administration sent its Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs to Sudan's capital, Khartoum, to persuade President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to admit the U.N. force, it was two days before he would even meet with her. Al-Bashir has a rather different plan for solving the problem: just before the Security Council vote, he launched a military offensive aimed at cleansing Darfur once and for all. The U.N. is warning...
...physical defense,” Gilmore said. “They’re a talented team, but I think they did an excellent job of timing their blitzes. And they did a good job of mixing them up.”Next week Harvard faces a tougher test in 2005 Ivy League champion Brown, who will miss graduated running back Nick Hartigan, last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year. The Bears will be ready to avenge their double-overtime loss, their only failure in league play last season. —Staff writer Madeleine...
...haven’t played one,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said. “But from what we do know, they’re an improved football team [from] over a year ago, and I think the biggest difference is they seem to be playing much tougher defense, both physically and statistically.”The Crusaders have a strong core in their returning players, including senior linebacker Dan Adams, who led the country with 97 solo tackles last year.“Dan is a very good player,” said Holy Cross coach...