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...Economy GDP is expected to grow a healthy 4.8% in 2004; stocks have risen; the rupiah and inflation are stable; and the national debt has fallen. Still, capricious bureaucrats and courts continue to deter foreign investment, which tumbled 41% in the first quarter, year-on-year...
...believes the economy ought to be growing as much as 7%. "There has been progress, but it has not yet come to a critical mass that will support growth or investment to achieve Indonesia's potential," he says. Meanwhile, prices for everyday necessities like cooking oil and electricity have risen as the government eliminates subsidies on many staples, while wages have not. "Megawati seemed to have pity for the wong cilik," observes Merry Gultom, a 30-year-old housewife in Jakarta who says it's tough to get by on her husband's salary as a minibus driver...
...agenda for the day, and her hairstyles get picked apart over the water cooler. The unique bond she has with viewers made her campaign against colon cancer an unprecedented success. One look at Couric's televised colonoscopy and thousands were moved to do the same; colon-cancer screenings have risen 20% nationwide (and untold lives saved) in what researchers call the Couric effect...
Jennifer Leaning, professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health, told the 18-member Council that since the creation of OSAPR last July, the number of students reporting incidents of sexual assault has risen slightly...
Childs says he has a waiting list of over a year for one of his instruments. As demand has risen, so has price: in 1986 his violins sold for $2000; now, you could purchase a Childs violin for $14,000. Each of his handmade violins bears his signature, not only by the ink stamp of a “Putto” cherub, which is his personal insignia—but also by the violin’s sound, which is distinctly Childs?...