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...Jesper Koll, president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan, argues that when falling prices are factored in, the country's nascent recovery is weaker than recent positive GDP growth numbers suggest. "We've got the consumer price index falling by 2.5%, wages falling by about 2.0%, winter bonuses falling by about 14%, and the Nikkei (stock market index) going down," he says. "All the growth we're seeing is because of arithmetic." Complicating matters is the strength of the Japanese yen, which has gained 6% on the dollar in the last three months. Prices generally decline in a strong currency...
Esplin will graduate this winter after completing her thesis on the role of China in the World Trade Organization...
Both tickets recognize that J-term and the future of students’ winter break experience, for example, is an issue of pressing importance for the student community. Bowman and Hysen have promised to speak to student groups and work to create a positive J-term experience for students over the new winter break; Hayward and Zhang take this idea a step further, calling for a “January Experience Partnership,” through which student groups will propose plans for their J-terms with the UC as spokesman...
...Carrabba desperately mourns, “All these years in the cold / Play hell on the throat / ’Til everything I say burns like cinders / Well it’s hard to belong / To a girl or a song / In the crease of a strangling winter.” It is at such moments that “Alter the Ending” truly shines; unfortunately, such compositions are few and far between on the album, included as afterthoughts rather than centerpieces, taking the backseat to one too many loud alt-rockers...
Lamont Café may have floor to ceiling windows, but that doesn’t mean you’re any closer to the outdoors. Comes in California Cool and Miami Madness for those planning on hibernating in the winter...