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...bigger issue that divides economists is whether China's growth spurt is sustainable. Goldman Sachs and several other major investment banks are increasing their China growth forecasts for the rest of this year and into 2010. Strong retail sales and household-survey data show that consumption is contributing to growth and may help sustain it even if government spending levels off. (See pictures of China's investment in Africa...
...increase their security, in turn allowing them to get on with their lives. Up to now, the deaths of Afghans in the fighting have done little to aid the allies and a lot to turn locals against foreign forces and the government of President Hamid Karzai, which those forces sustain. This is a place - as British and Russian armies discovered and were sent packing after their discoveries - where the waters of vengeance run deep. "If the Americans kill an Afghan father, the son will take revenge and pick up a gun and will stand against foreigners," says Abdul Qadir...
...long can Detroit sustain itself when monthly sales numbers are this bad? The two bankrupt companies, Chrysler and General Motors, closed their assembly lines for much of May and June, which reduces their revenue substantially. Chrysler started up this week but will close again next week for summer changeovers. Both GM and Chrysler have built their recovery plans on very low sales estimates, which is the principal reason they have closed so many factories and discarded so many employees as they restructure. GM just announced plans to shed another 4,000 salaried employees by October, at which point it expects...
...world premiere in New York years ago and then went to San Francisco and Paris. Lar Lubovitch is a wonderful choreographer, and we worked very closely together. The thing I had to learn was how dancers are athletes - only choreographers can really appreciate how long you can sustain a musical passage for a dancer onstage. Othello is a big challenge, one of the few if not the only commissioned American ballet to be in three acts. Given that it's a full evening of dance, there are all kinds of limitations in terms of how much a human being...
...Sahand, who is also an inactive Crimson business editor, similarly stressed the need to sustain media coverage of the current tumult. The longer the media and people pay attention, he says, the more likely that things will turn out to be good. He says he has been following news on The New York Times, the Huffington Post's live blog, Andrew Sullivan’s blog on the Atlantic's Web site, and some Farsi sites...