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...Brusca. Consumer prices last year rose a mere 2.7%, the second smallest increase in the past 18 years; Greenspan himself predicts only 3% this year. Unit labor costs, a prime indicator of future price increases, are going down. Critics think Greenspan is either pursuing a wildly unrealistic goal of zero inflation or following a simplistic syllogism: as a rule, rapid rises in output eventually bring inflation; production grew at an annual rate of 5.9% at the end of 1993; therefore inflation threatens...
Instead of risking our ego capital on the investment of a greeting, and possibly losing face (What if I say hi and no one says hi back?), we all keep it safely tucked away in our mental banks where the rate of return is essentially zero, but a least constant. Big deal, you say. So I don't say anything. What's the difference...
...rich a prospect? Says Levi Richardson, manager of Vietnam affairs for the U.S.-ASEAN Council for Business and Technology: "There will be phenomenal growth. They're starting at ground zero." The U.S.-ASEAN Council, which includes many of the FORTUNE 500 companies that do business in Southeast Asia, has conducted the only systematic survey of Vietnam's business opportunities; it expects roughly $2.6 billion worth of trade and investment to flow within two years and $8.2 billion within five. Even then, Vietnam would not be "a powerhouse like Indonesia and other ASEAN countries," Richardson admits, "but people expect...
...their new acquaintances: the "did it feel good/ when it felt good" that opens up each chorus comes off, you'll have to take my word for this, as the angriest possible way imaginable to mock the poor guy the song is trying to mock. Another high point is "Zero in Trust," which was also aMINIATURE's first single last year. There may not be another record this good that rocks this hard for a while--one reason for which might be that everyone more talented or more experienced than aMINIATURE has given up on big guitar attacks, and prefers...
...have two other friends who took the course," Varela says. "Both attended zero percent of the lectures and ended up with A-minuses. Not only that, but for the midterm they were supposed to read the play "The Wild Duck' by Henrick Ibsen. They rented the movie instead and both...