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America's GDP, economy shrink--again.(Inside Track)(Gross Domestic Product)(Brief article)
Despite rosy earnings reports from some closely watched corporations, the Great Recession is far from over, according to the latest economic data from the Commerce Department. America's GDP, which shrank at an annualized rate of 6.3 percent in the last quarter of 2008, was expected to decline at a rate of about 5 percent for the first quarter of this year. Instead, it fell 6.1 percent, suggesting that last year's meltdown continues more or less apace.
Exports shrank by 30 percent--worse than last year's fourth quarter showing--and business inventories declined by more than $103 billion. Consumer spending did rise, although not enough to offset other declines.
Such statistics are notoriously unreliable indicators of future economic growth, predicated as they are on the Keynesian economic assumption that spending and consumption, not savings, spur economic ...
- Who will lead UAW after Yokich?;GM, Ford unit chiefs given inside track.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Automotive News SERWACH, JOSEPH February 21, 2000 700+ words
...director of the Labor Studies Center at Wayne State University in Detroit, says the head of the GM Department typically has an inside track to the UAW presidency. ``Shoemaker has the GM job, Yokich had the GM job and (former president Owen) Bieber had the...
- Inside track.(Products)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Builder Tomasulo, Katy September 1, 2003 700+ words
INSIDE TRACK: Pozzi clad windows are now available with Douglas fir interiors, along with Pacific Coast red alder and mahogany. The Douglas...
- Inside Track.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Mortgage News June 5, 2000 700+ words
- EDITORIAL Getting the Best Execution 4 - OPEN FORUM Progress Report on FHA 4 - TECHNOLOGY Latest Rankings from Gomez 6 - INTERNATIONAL English Market May Peak 12 - COMMERCIAL MORTGAGES 14 - PEOPLE 22 GOING DOWN Sales of new homes were down sharply in April, as interest rate rises take their toll.
- The inside track.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Multichannel News Swenson, Keith June 3, 2002 700+ words
Lacey Heward and Sarah Will are among the disabled athletes from all over the world who compete on the same Olympic downhill slopes as able-bodied athletes. "My brother came home from vacation after my injury and told me about the disabled skiers, and I said well if they can do it, I certainly
- Multinational education.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: The New American October 29, 2007 700+ words
According to an AP report, the Oregon Department of Education and Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education are conducting discussions to align their curricula so courses will be valid in both countries. Going against conventional practice--wherein foreign students are immersed in the language of
- Thomas Priselac.(INSIDE TRACK)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Berry, Kate December 19, 2005 700+ words
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's President and Chief Executive Thomas Priselac was awarded the Warschaw Law Endowed Chair in Health Care Leadership, a permanent chair at Cedars-Sinai devoted to research and education in health care policy. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and County Supervisor Zev
- Take the Inside Track.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Builder MAYNARD, ROBERTA February 1, 2000 700+ words
Upscale infill specs are easy, if you don't count the time, money, diplomacy, and patience they require. FACED WITH A DWINDLING SUPPLY OF RAW LAND, Paramount Building Corp. decided to become an expert at infill, particularly tear-downs, in its main market of Boca Raton, Fla. Easier said than done,
- Patriot Act under fire.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: The New American October 1, 2007 700+ words
The USA Patriot Act has come under fire in U.S. District Court from Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York. The case related to National Security Letters which, according to Wired News, were used under the Patriot Act "to issue 143,074 requests for phone and internet records from