The Malaysian leader may also be echoing a cry of fear and pain from all Asia, whose world-beating growth looks set to slow in the face of increasing financial woes and global competition -- both triggered in large part by liberalization.
Perversely, a dramatic improvement could lead to trouble: strong growth, and the easing of pain that would come with it, might well cause companies to put off reform yet again.
However, palliative radiation was an option for her (required 12 treatments over the course of 3 months) to help control the growth of the tumors and most importantly pain management.
But as Matthew Herper observed back in June, Medtronic has received something of a black eye this year in connection with its promotion of a key product, recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2, (rhBMP-2) which is designed to speed healthy bone growth and fusion in patients with back pain.
Now that Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi has caved in on calls to raise the capital gains tax, wealth taxes and VAT taxes, the European debt variable likely holds more pain ahead as the on-going anti-growth fiscal bias on the continent will lead to slower growth and falling government tax revenues as a result.
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So the economy may be growing again, but that growth has not nearly made up for the terrible pain and dislocations that rocked businesses and families over the course of a very difficult two years.
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To the contrary, aid discouraged reform of growth-defeating policies since it minimized the pain of failure and enabled governments to protect their most important political constituencies.
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Markets and economies have seemingly become addicted to bailouts and are completely resistant to the idea of short-term pain or failure in the name of more productive and healthier long-term economic growth.
Now Merck has realized that it won't be able to squeeze as much growth as it thought out of its current leaders: arthritis-pain drug Vioxx and cholesterol-lowering Zocor.
Hit 4% to 5% growth consistently, and you'll not only ease 2001's recessionary pain but also be on the way to dog-roping some of America's big, long-term challenges as well.
All coffee producers and sellers will be affected by the price increase, but when you are at the top of the price ladder and have painfully slow growth that is already a result of those lower McDonald's prices, that pain may be more immediate and severe.
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