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...endowment’s recent pace, however, those taxes would be more than compensated by increased returns...
...country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike...
...Then again, they might not. Says S.P. Kothari, a merger expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Comcast shareholders will not let the company give up this power. They will say, 'What the heck, are we running a charity shop?'" Plus, ESPN may need to maximize revenues to keep pace with its escalating cost of rights fees; the network is the first to air all four major professional sports simultaneously...
...recipe for glut that could reverberate around the globe, and not just in cars. From microwaves to T shirts to sheet steel, China is building up excess capacity at a breakneck pace. The country's economy grew 9.1% last year and attracted $53 billion in foreign investment, second only to the U.S. economy. The emerging middle class pushed retail sales up 9% in 2003, but industrial output shot up 17%. Economists warn of a crash waiting to happen: if too many factories make too many goods chasing too few buyers, the results are likely to be deflation, widespread business failures...
...country's most important method of freight transport, fell into disrepair by the 1960s as roads and rail transport took traffic away. But over the past 15 years, more than $935 million has been invested in canal restoration, so today visitors can rediscover the joys of a bygone pace of life in city and countryside alike. Canal building requires tricky engineering over obstacles like hills; the typical solution is a lock, which fills or empties to adjust water height. On Britain's southernmost canal - the 140-km Kennet and Avon, linking the town of Reading on the Thames...