They want each side to move outside their comfort zone to accept tough choices that they wouldn't ordinarily want to accept but which the demands of the time -- or rather the times demand.
If the firms that do most of the hiring are not consultancies or investment banks, they may demand different skills: perhaps expertise in engineering or law, rather than a general understanding of business principles, acquired at great expense.
Finally, she points out that, unlike in previous rallies, private domestic demand, rather than exports or fiscal loosening, is supplying much of the economic impetus.
Supposedly, Mr Stollmann stepped down (or rather back) because Mr Lafontaine won his demand that key planning and Europe departments be hived off from the economics ministry and added to the Lafontaine finance empire.
For renting a movie, I would rather deliver it through Comcast video on demand or through a DVD to a high-def TV with a fat file.
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This is noble, but rather highlights that there are many, many other situations where demand or availability is already causing problems for mobile workers on 3G connections.
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In the 1990s Truman Bewley of Yale University interviewed hundreds of employers and discovered that, faced with a slump in demand, they would rather lay some workers off than cut the pay or hours of everybody.
The optimism is based not on an expectation of rapid or large increases in domestic sales, but rather on confidence in the continued strength of overseas market demand for Japanese products.
The Keynesian story goes like this- if there is collapse in private sector demand due to a failure of business confidence or some other economic shock, then rather than suffer unemployment and all the other negative consequences of recession it is possible for government through public spending to replace the lost demand and steer the economy back to full employment.
But with the Bank rate unlikely or unable to fall further, new home loan demand is shifting back to fixed-rate deals, rather than mortgages which track the Bank rate.
The Fed would use the discount rate rather than the federal funds market to supply or withdraw credit in response to any imbalance between supply and demand for it.
So when you've got a house-full this Christmas, rather than interrupt the kids' cartoons or the big match, you can now browse through the On Demand movie listings from the kitchen whilst making dinner, and find the perfect film to watch later on.
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