Staff discussed the situation with the company, assessed the merits of the various solutions, and the minister of economic development took the issue before executive council.
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My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.
the investment banks and economists may come out and lower second-half gross domestic product growth forecasts.
But with interest rates declining, we think Cisco shares will hang tough near-term and then rally as the economic picture improves.
Globalization is a fact of economic life.
We're seeing massive buying in bank stocks on the back of economic optimism. What we need to see is this sort of targeted buying of lenders spreading to other industries. With that we will have further sustainable gains.
Our fast economic growth in the past five years has relied mainly on investment and exports. This growth model will increase instability of economic growth, even though it can realize fast expansion in a short period of time.
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
It's one more tool in the economic development tool box that we employ to ensure that Orlando remains competitive for new business locations and expansions.
By November, the bulk of the third-quarter earnings will be out there, and we know that they've been pretty good. But for stocks to go higher, we're going to need another catalyst. Expectations for a strong fourth quarter could do it, positive comments on the holiday season could do it, but really, I think it's going to be the economic news.
China is a powerful country, especially in economics, and it also plays a big role as member of the UN.
That's pretty devastating in itself, but there's a lot more involved than just economics. Fifty years from now, we don't want to be telling our children stories about casinos.
The recent collapse of fertility in Russia has been almost completely economic. When people are uncertain about the future, they don't have children.
The first day of class this fall, I broke the students into teams of five and asked them to provide me with four or five tax credits that are currently not in the Internal Revenue Code but would be excellent additions. I ask each group to not only come up with new tax credits, but explain the social, economic or political reason for why the tax credit should be enacted by Congress.
What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.
Nobody thought we could pull it off on our own as immigrants, as people of color even the consultants we hired. This is not about money. It's about creating an economic model of a restaurant that does well but not just for the owners, on the backs of the workers.
The expectations are we'll come up with something that will work relative to our economics. But everyone knows this cuts real deep. We're going to have to make this work in the league. We're going to have to run some tighter ships in managing our costs.
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A lot of us have reached an economic plateau in our lives. Before, the best we could hope for is to retire on Social Security .
None of them are making money. Investors believe it is going to be difficult to make the economic model profitable.
Our fund has focused on consumer staples, like food and beverages and tobacco, where we think despite the economic environment of the region those companies will continue to see strong cash flow.
The level of detail in this report shows the importance we lay to our project's impact on the community. The economic numbers you don't see are contained in another part of our application to the state that remains sealed.
We certainly couldn't compete with that type of money. The economics of the WNBA would not allow for that type of deal.
We're not celebrating just yet because this is only the first step, albeit a very important one. The Executive have 28 days to make their ruling but we would hope they would concur with the views of the local councilors. What this decision does mean however is that we can now go out to tender which in turn allows us to assess the economic viability of the entire project.
I can't say that I would I see them doing an inter-meeting rate cut, but if the economic statistics continue to come in on the weak side, I would think we would see an easing in September,
We should have a strong sense of crisis, because we cannot concentrate on economic development without a consolidated national defense and a powerful army,
ideologies of Old Europe have condemned hundreds of millions of people to the economic slow track while the United States has accelerated into the distance, with India and China coming up on the rails.
With the recent weak data, there is growing concern about the U.S. economic outlook. That lowers expectations for rate increases and is weighing on the U.S. currency. People are dollar bearish.
We've spent most of the day getting back to where we were Saturday. There's been no discussion of economics, no discussion of salaries, no discussion of health care.
The power rate structure the PUD commission will set in the next two weeks will have long-range consequences on economic development, impacting both the viability of existing businesses and the potential for new businesses and industries to locate in our county, ... Retaining and attracting industrial and manufacturing businesses that provide jobs and in turn stimulate the local economy are key to the health of our communities, the county and our citizens.
Freeing up less productive resources by accomplishing more with less is the entire basis for rising living standards. It shouldn't come as a surprise that stronger periods of economic growth have generally begun during periods of high unemployment, not low unemployment.
Clearly, inflation poses no real threat, but overly aggressive Fed interest-rate policy could torpedo the economic expansion.
I'm not thinking the accelerated tax rate reductions would have a huge impact. They always like to say it's an economic stimulus package because they want to give the illusion that the economy is recovering that people will have more money. But it's only a small drop in the tax rates and I don't think in the grand scheme of things most taxpayers are really going to notice it.
If we are going back to a more traditional 1950s, 1960s style of economic activity, we are also going back to a '50s, '60s style of inflation performance,
With one member of the MPC voting for an interest rate cut in December and Bank of England chief economist, Charlie Bean, recently making some dovish comments, the odds of an interest rate cut early in 2006 are rising.
Green and clean neighborhoods are essential to the quality of life, economic development, social fabric, and environmental health of San Francisco.
Bank of America has now become a scale player in credit cards. The more accounts and balances you can spread over your essentially fixed-cost process system, the better the economics get.
People say he's part of the problem, not the solution. I say he's part of the solution because you cannot have a change of government at a time of economic crisis,
I expect bonds to keep rising. Economic growth is facing obstacles.
Politicians live in artificial lines, economies don't, ... I'm out preaching all the time of the interdependence of us all. Northwest Indiana, when steel was healthier and employment was up, once pulled a lot more weight than they do now. It matters elsewhere (in the state) that they pull out of economic decline and political corruption.
A stronger won will continue to hurt exports. That will damage the competitiveness of South Korean exports that still play a big role in economic growth.
As the economic ramifications of Sept. 11 continue to reverberate in the coming weeks and months, and the number of layoffs continues to rise, the economy faces tougher times ahead, ... While consumers have managed to keep the U. S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon may no longer be the case.
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
What generally happens is, during the first year of economic expansion, we see more productivity growth than job growth, and that changes as you go into the second year. We may be on the cusp of that.
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
For me, as an economist, it was frustrating to have no sense of a theory of corporate finance to tie all this material together.
If we look to the future, when we talk about outsourcing jobs, when we talk about global competitiveness and our efficiency, none of that matters very much unless we have appropriate training and education for our young people today who are the workforce of tomorrow. It is an economic reality, and we are failing.