Companies are doing well, but aren't passing their wealth on to employees. Consumer spending is under strain. When you add oil prices to that, disposable incomes are falling. |
Companies have to learn to live with keeping their costs down. They're not going to get pricing power not in our lifetime, I'm afraid. The world is just much too competitive. |
Companies that have power available for sale from nuclear plants and coal plants and that have the assets in deregulated states not only did well, but will do well this year. |
Computer hacking is not fun and games. Hackers cause real harm to real victims. Would-be hackers... should be put on notice that such criminal activity will not be tolerated. |
Comrade Deng Xiaoping -- along with other party elders -- gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures. |
Conditions were tough. And when they're tough, it comes down to willpower ? who wants it most ? and that is what he said before he came off the ice (after his final warm-up). |
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Consumers may have throttled back a touch in February, but given the weather and all they had spent the previous few months, we cannot conclude that consumption is faltering. |
Core prices continue to rise faster than would be considered comfortable and at the intermediate level they have been surging for the past six months. That is a warning sign. |
Corporate customers want and are demanding that their vendors abandon divisive rhetoric and useless posturing and get on with the business of working together constructively, |
Costa is the largest and most successful cruise line in Europe and will serve as Carnival's primary platform for expanding our presence in this increasingly important market, |
Countries like Malawi need, require and deserve the increased help of the international community, not only in the form of food aid but in the form of help to grow more food. |
County Manager Thom Reilly asked County Recorder Fran Deane to step down while an investigation of her was underway. Shouldn't County Manager Thom Reilly take his own advice? |
Creating a pseudo-C++ or alternatively easy object-oriented language would be a disaster. There is just too much support for Java for Microsoft to entice people away from it, |