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...French economist, like Fang, warned against excessive focus on currency. Governments, particularly in France and Germany, need to continue reforming their economies to boost productivity, reduce the relatively high cost of labor and find better investment uses for a huge pool of savings that is sitting in bank accounts that yield very low returns. France's savings rate is higher even than Japan's. "The strength of the euro highlights European structural problems; it doesn't cause them," Blanque said...
...after a meal, a movie, some mingling and a four-hour nap, that leaves you with, oh, my God, nine hours to go. I read Jarhead for a little longer, then switched my video channel to the moving map display. It showed nothing but the huge blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Where the hell was Singapore anyway? Then back to the movies! Intolerable Cruelty zipped by. Then a couple of hours more sleep...
...huge chunk of the market is still up for grabs: namely, the 40 million-plus homes using dial-up to connect. For some of these users, a 56K modem is plenty. But budding BPL providers are betting that a significant number of consumers really do want broadband service but are simply holding out for a better offer...
...that an Internet transaction costs the bank only 11[cents], a tenth the cost of a local branch transaction. And every month customers make 4.1 million bill payments over the Internet. The migration to the Net also allowed Merita to close two-thirds of its 800 branches, resulting in huge savings...
...first thing to mistrust, should you be an American thinking of going to Australia for the first time, is your idea of the place and its people. Probably you think the 2000 Sydney Olympics is a vastly important event for all of us, a huge national rite that will "put us on the map"--the same map, presumably, on which the last Australian Olympics, in Melbourne in 1956, failed to inscribe...