With the unemployment rate heading towards 10%, politicians understandably fear the mass lay-offs that big plant closures would bring.

ECONOMIST: Cutting down the chaebol

The Rangers' penalty-killing unit, which had an 80% success rate heading into the game, collapsed under the weight of seven penalties.

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Argentina's unemployment rate has been heading upward since the mid-1980s (it's now 15%) because the tax bite is so large.

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Experts claim that this had up to an 85% success rate in engaging missiles heading for populated areas.

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Clearly firms will not continue to invest heavily forever if both profits and the rate of capacity use are heading downwards.

ECONOMIST: No longer boom, but not yet doom

Nomura expected Brazil to be a little more aggressive with their interest rate hike on Wednesday, heading to 7.75% instead of the 7.5% the Central Bank chose to settle at last night.

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Saturday, the storm was heading west-northwest at a 15 mph rate and had sustained winds of 50 mph, a shade weaker than Ernesto.

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