Word: trailing
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...there is an unsettling permanence to the falling-wage trend, as companies hold the line on compensation so they can compete in an increasingly global economy in which low costs are key to survival. The ugly truth, which you won't hear on the campaign trail, is that even as economic growth picks up--as it surely will--there isn't a lot Washington can do to encourage employers to hand out more raises. Cost pressures will be so intense during the next expansion, business experts say, that companies are likely to stick to their guns. They will outsource more...
...computer “worm” disguised as an e-mail from Microsoft left a trail of infection across the College this week...
...tells the reader everything he wrote down in his notebook, interesting or not: "We drove for half an hour, past rice paddies, water buffalo and palm trees." Invented Eden has many such sentences. Worse, Hemley is a complainer, which is no more fun in a book than on the trail: the roads are muddy, his saddle hurts, the locals rip him off, his asthma acts...
...timing of the attack raises some interesting questions. The Saudi authorities had been hot on the trail of 19 suspected al-Qaeda members inside the kingdom for the past two weeks. So there may be some question over whether the attacks were originally planned for this particular date, or whether they were carried out by a group under pressure who chose to stage the best attack they could before being caught by the Saudi authorities...
...deplore its foreign policy [COVER STORY, April 21]. The invasion of Iraq was unnecessary. True, the dictator has gone, but the people have paid a terrible price. Few Iraqis feel "liberated." Can we be blamed for feeling uneasy about the future? It's hard to ignore the U.S.-wrought trail of wreckage and carnage extending from Nicaragua to El Salvador to Chile to Vietnam to Cambodia--and now to Iraq. GERALD W. HANKINS Canmore, Alta...