Word: openly
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...announced that technology -- gasp! -- was good for productivity). "But right now, it doesn't look like any more than the soft landing, from 5 percent growth to about 3.5 percent, that the Fed has been trying to engineer." In fact, says Baumohl, there are some on the Fed's Open Market Committee who feel one more rate hike is still necessary. Greenspan, says Baumohl, is not among them. "There's no sign of any sharp drop-off in economic activity," he says. "On the other hand, Greenspan seems satisfied that his tightening has had a lasting effect. He's likely...
...even in Florida, whose courts are more open than most, the protocols still overwhelm people. Two weeks ago, courier Lee Johnson, 42, went to the Orange County courthouse to ask for custody of his sons. Before Judge Jeffords Miller, Johnson and his estranged wife awkwardly presented their arguments. The judge played referee, offering well-meaning platitudes such as "It takes two to make a fight...
...Face/Off's Alessandro Nivola join Branagh and the gifted Adrian Lester to complete a quartet of severely dimpled swains. The assumption--here as in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You--is that singing and dancing are not so much skills as attitudes. Anyone can do it. Just open your mouth, and pick up your feet. Well, no, it ain't so. To stumble through Cheek to Cheek and Let's Face the Music and Dance is to hobble their meaning and resonance...
Those who support the U.S. having permanent normal trade relations with China are delusional, shortsighted and naive. The agreement may cut Chinese tariffs and serve to open up new markets for American manufacturers and service providers, but inward-looking China will not turn on a dime to meet U.S. criteria for human rights. China will promise the moon but deliver only manufactured products and immigrants to its trading partners. In the short term, North American jobs will be lost when U.S. manufacturers move plants to China, where labor is cheap. The U.S. trade deficit with China will escalate to frightening...
...Baltimore, Md., murders are up significantly. But then again Baltimore has never enjoyed the decline experienced by the rest of the country. New Mayor Martin O'Malley, who won office with a promise to reduce violent crime, says an unintended side effect of his crackdown on open-air drug markets was to drive dealers into other neighborhoods, sparking turf wars that caused 24 homicides...