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...generated through a fundamentally strengthening economy or through artificial means like "Cash for Clunkers" measures. Turn off the tap too quickly before normal demand recovers, and the downturn could persist. "The best way of reducing excess capacity is by not prematurely unwinding stimulus spending," Lin of the World Bank told TIME...
...that we'll go back to the old days," Qu says. But "demand in the future will be lower than in the past," he says. "That means the factory owners have to face reality" - the reality of them no longer cranking out ever more widgets in a widget-weary world...
...Gourmet had a more panoramic view of the epicurean sensibility," says Mary Kay Culpepper, former editor of Time Inc.'s Cooking Light and a Gourmet fan. "You'd explore the world through what was at your table. Bon App's more about entertaining...
...Igor Olenicoff - owed $7.2 million in U.S. taxes. But at the same time, almost no one in the U.S. government would deny that Birkenfeld was absolutely essential to its landmark tax-evasion case against Swiss banking giant UBS. The former UBS employee turned whistle-blower exposed the previously hidden world of offshore tax shelters, which cheats the Treasury out of about $100 billion a year. Thanks to his insider information, UBS was fined $780 million, and it promised to "exit entirely" from the U.S. tax-shelter business and to provide the names of thousands of American tax dodgers, from which...
There was a time when I would roll my eyes at the Goldies, Shlomos and Sadies of the world - those old-country Jewish folks with their old-fashioned shtetl names. They may have embodied my heritage - my peeps - but I winced at how out of step their monikers made them seem...