.... they pay a "Japan premium" on top of market interest rates, as happened from 1962 to 1964. At that time, because Japan was seen as a second- or third-rate country, this was to be expected. However, Japan is now a financial giant. Is it strange that Japanese banks have to pay higher interest rates when they borrow money? At the international conferences I have attended over the past few months, whenever the Asian crisis is discussed, four countries--Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Japan--are mentioned as the main problem countries. China's new and powerful .....

.... 420 percent [between1952 and 1980] ... average individual income increased by only 100 percent" (Ma Hong quoted in Shirk 28). However, attempts at economic reform in China were introduced not only due to some kind of generosity on the part of the Chinese Communist Party to increase the populace's living standards. It had become clear to members of the CCP that economic reform would fulfill a political purpose as well since the party felt, properly it would seem, that it had suffered a loss of support. As Susan L. Shirk describes the situation in The Political Lo .....

.... presence tha t dates back to 1882 when it opened a plant in Antwerp ,Belgium. AT+T has approximately 51,000 employees based outside of the United States.In 1994, International revenues alone were 25 percent. You can see why AT+T has a presence in nearly 100 countries around the world, and does business in about 200 countries. In the last fifteen months AT+T has split into three separate companies. They are AT+T, a global communications company; Lucent Technologies, a technological company; NCR Corporation, a computer company. The new AT+T is committed to m .....

.... of education in the networking and infrastructure of the World Wide Web will easily be able to receive a well-paying job. In other words, the Internet service providing industry is playing a large part in helping the US economy reach full employment, meaning that the cyclic unemployment is approaching zero. Although it seems the industry is very secure because it is in a full employment situation now, this does not mean that there is a very low amount of unemployment. According to many economists, there are three types of unemployment: frictional, structural .....

.... of labourers. Since the farm no longer needed as many workers to survive, people had to find other means of work. This allowed for the availability of cheap labour. Another source of labour was women. Many would spin or weave part-time in addition to their farm or housework. Even with the development of new technology most of the jobs in the linen industry did not need much knowledge and skill. The jobs were highly labour-intensive. The rapid growth of the industry after 1740 was fuelled by the rising supplies of cheap labour in the central manufacturing di .....

.... 1998, our rate stood at 5.9% against Tesco’s 18.47%. This suggests that Tesco are “running away” with the competition – having analysed them, there are measures we can take to reduce this deficit. A wider range of products and services will provide Safeway with a more powerful “pulling” ability, thus increasing sales and profits: Clothing is an area of growth within supermarkets – due to their size, large supermarkets are able to purchase garments in large quantities, thus retailing them at a great discount compared to high street stores. Safeway have .....

.... didnÕt seem like a waste. Something simple such as being young can make someone retire early. Retiring early just for being young also has their advantages. This way, the retiree can explore more areas and get to stay longer because they have more years to enjoy than an ordinary retiree. Also, when someone gets older their health slowly diminish and their ambition to go out and travel also vanishes. Finally, having good health while retired pays off. One would tend to enjoy retirement more if their health were in decent shape. Irritating inj .....

.... created this advertisement very carefully because they filled the action of the scene with the feeling of a need for coca cola (their product). This ad made the view more entertaining as it interupted the regular program being displayed at the time. Techniques of repetion did occur fore they had the same advertisement run twice during the commercials. Speech was not being used, instead music and a image of heat which visually helped the scene. The music gives a sense of excitement to the viewers. The structure of this ad was regular. First the image of .....