Word: spending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...writing this column while in my living room watching Gordon Ramsay's new reality-based series Kitchen Nightmares. My wife is not very happy with me. As we spend some time together each evening watching television, my trusty MacBook Pro sits only a few inches away from me, beckoning me to get online and open a web browser. In the past, we have enjoyed watching our favorite shows together, but now Steve Jobs' latest laptop wizardry threatens to come between...
...example, Chinese President Hu Jintao's centerpiece program of building a "harmonious society" by raising wages and improving state services such as health care for poorer workers plays well with the masses, but may undermine efforts to contain inflation. "As low-income earners enjoy higher incomes they tend to spend money," says Simpfendorfer, the Royal Bank of Scotland economist. "Ultimately that's an inflationary story." Political considerations can also prevent officials from taking aggressive, timely action, says Albert Keidel, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former Beijing-based senior economist for the World Bank...
...worldwide air travel steadily increases, airlines will need to buy almost 29,000 planes worth $2.8 trillion over the next two decades, with nearly one-third of them destined for Asian carriers, according to Boeing, the No. 1 manufacturer of commercial jets. In China alone, domestic airlines could spend as much as $340 billion for 3,400 new aircraft - nearly quadrupling the current fleet of about 1,000 - by 2026. There's also booming demand for smaller, so-called regional jets like the ARJ21, aircraft with fewer than 150 seats flown on short-haul domestic routes. At least...
...what's the big rush? "Every time we speed up the time it takes to complete an unimportant task," he says, "we create the possibility of more time to spend doing what we feel is significant--whether it's building a business or watching the sunset." In other words, rush around all day and you might save up enough time to smell the roses. Well, maybe. But a true speed freak will probably use the extra time to squeeze out a few more e-mail messages. Still, Poscente's message of picking up the pace and enjoying...
...after walking me down a hallway lined with gold and platinum records. "This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We're changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking up each other's dresses. Fear's the only issue the Republican Party has. Vote for them, or the terrorists will win. That's not what Reagan was about. I hate to think about our soldiers over in Iraq fighting for a country that's slipping...