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...indeed ride out a period of U.S. weakness. "The overwhelming evidence of the past few months is that the rest of the world is doing just fine, and that some places are doing better than just fine," says Jim O'Neill, London-based head of global economic research for Goldman Sachs. Even if the U.S. economy remains soft for much of the year, O'Neill adds, "we're pretty confident that the rest of the world will withstand it." At the German Engineering Federation in Frankfurt, chief economist Ralph Wiechers concurs. "It used to be that the U.S. economy supported...
...Economic forecasting is a dismal science, and this year could well turn out to be very different from the "happy slowdown" that Goldman's O'Neill predicts. Here are some of the factors that will influence the outcome...
...Paulson was suffering, though, you wouldn't have known it-even though he was the U.S. official who least needed the lecture. He remained attentive throughout. After all, Paulson made countless trips to Beijing during his investment-banking career at Goldman Sachs and had doubtless sat through many similar monologues. "He's been in a lot of meetings with a lot of Chinese officials, and knows that the last thing you do is get angry at the effective ones," says one former U.S. diplomat. Wu spearheaded China's effort to join the World Trade Organization five years...
...work together effectively to underscore the status of the characters. Costume designers Olga I. Zhulina ’09 and Sabrina Chou ’09 put each couple in subtly matching colors while Robert wears neutrals, effectively emphasizing his isolation. The set, designed by Melissa E. Goldman ’06 and Grace C. Laubacher ’09, consists of five large cubicles along the walls on the first floor for the couples and three smaller ones on a second level for the girlfriends. The band is perched in between the two levels, serving to draw the characters...
...White House toward green issues. "I'd say 90% of the business community wants more action on the environment than the Bush Administration does," says Esty. So while the Federal Government dragged its feet on alternative energy, business moved into the vacuum, lured primarily by potential profits. In 2005 Goldman Sachs pledged to invest $1 billion in renewable energy, while Cleantech Venture Network estimates that $10 billion in venture capital will be directed to green technology from 2005 to 2009. Under CEO Jeff Immelt's Ecomagination initiative, GE has committed to spending $1.5 billion a year on renewable energy...