The concessions may not be fatal to the government's documentation drive (some retailers can defer declaring their stocks and will not be subject to on-the-spot inspections, though they will remain liable for audit).

ECONOMIST: The general dictates the tune to which Pakistan will dance

Commenting on Mr. Alan Greenspan's crafting of U.S. monetary policy, a recent magazine article warned against the obsessive drive to achieve some arbitrary consumer price index rate, and compared it to Captain Ahab's fatal pursuit of Moby Dick.

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