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Half Empty, Half Full?(World economy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Can the world be any closer to the cliff of recession? By most indications, prospects have never been bleaker. A dramatic slowdown in Europe. German retail sales dropped almost 2 percent in June. The Confederation of British Industry slashed its growth forecast for British manufacturing. Japan's third recession of the decade, with output dropping at a rate of 3 percent in the second quarter. Massive U.S. job cuts: 19,000 at Lucent Technologies Inc., nearly 11,000 at Hewlett-Packard, 1,200 announced at AOL just last week. Basically EveryCorp U.S.A. Take your pick for worst of the worst.
South Korea, the IMF's new golden child after having repaid its $20 billion bailout loans from the 1998 Asia crisis, looks like a ray of sunshine. But Kim Dae Jung's Korea could soon stumble when it comes to the seemingly simple. Exports are plummeting. Debt levels are rising. And Korea's second-quarter GDP growth slowed to 2.7 percent--its lowest since 1986. It's no better in South America. Argentina got $8 billion in temporary relief from the IMF, but the country's continuing economic crisis yields little hope for Latin America. And Brazil's not of much help either.
And yet. There are some slivers of silver lining. German bankers think their economy may have bottomed out. Business confidence rose in July, according to the latest IFO survey, and last week's GDP numbers are higher than ...
- Market viewed as proverbial half-empty, half-full glass.
- Magazine article from: The Business Journal (Serving Greater Tampa Bay) Cronan, Carl March 16, 2001 700+ words
...running over to a glass that is half full, half empty. Most building managers and brokers...O'Connell said. From the half-full perspective, he said, the Bay...private jets. As for the glass half empty, O'Connell said, brokers are...
- Raise a half-full (or half-empty) glass to toast the Colts.
- Newspaper article from: News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) December 29, 2006 700+ words
...is the Colts' glass half-full or half-empty? That's the question...points, with the glass half-full view, the glass half-empty view and the true view...This glass isn't half full or half empty. It's broken. Colts...
- The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind., Reggie Hayes column: Raise a glass...
- Newspaper article from: News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) December 30, 2006 700+ words
...is the Colts' glass half-full or half-empty? That's the question...points, with the glass- half-full view, the glass-half-empty view and the true view...This glass isn't half-full or half-empty. It's broken. Colts...
- Sooners' string of narrow victories brings half-full, half-empty scenarios.
- Newspaper article from: Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) March 5, 2006 700+ words
...point triumphs -- all school records -- bring both half-full and half-empty scenarios. "The plus-side is getting used to...But, naturally, the Sooners are only seeing a half-full glass at the moment. "Winning a close game gives...
- Half full or half empty?(SECURITY COUNSEL)(Column)
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Commerce Peck, William G. June 13, 2005 700+ words
...never be another attack; that the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings were a fluke. Thus we have the classic "glass half full-half empty" perspectives where the very same milestone is cited as irrevocable proof that all of the security measures that...
- The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa., Bill White column: L. Macungie's glass half...
- Newspaper article from: Morning Call (Allentown, PA) January 27, 2007 700+ words
...township's glass is half full, not half empty. For example...s another one. Half full: Tremendous growth...embezzlement. Half empty: Houses have been...in those homes. Half full: A $10 million surplus! Half empty: A $10 million...
- FullWrite Professional 1.0: the old 'half-full, half-empty' enigma revisited....
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK Klatzkin, Dennis July 26, 1988 700+ words
FullWrite: The old 'half-full, half-empty' enigma revisited The elephant has the longest gestation period of all living things -- some 22 months. Evidently, it's easier...
- Brad Childress stands by his call: Declining Eagles penalty was 'glass...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 5, 2009 700+ words
...that you're going to stop them for zero yards and it's going to be a 52-yard attempt. "It's glass half full, glass half empty." Akers' longest field goal this season was 51 yards, which he matched later in the quarter. But Childress...
- Minnesota Vikings report: Brad Childress stands by his play calling: Declining...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 5, 2009 700+ words
...that you're going to stop them for zero yards and it's going to be a 52-yard attempt. "It's glass half-full, glass half-empty." Akers' longest field goal this season was 51 yards, which he matched later in the quarter. But Childress...
- Governance: Glass(es) half-full or half empty.
- Magazine article from: Business Recorder February 17, 2007 700+ words
...a glass and say 'half-full' or 'half-empty'. While the people...Some institutions are half-full and growing and some are half-empty either going down...time when the glass (half-full or half-empty) actually breaks...
Source: HighBeam Research, Half Empty, Half Full?(World economy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data...