With China's government pursuing a massive stimulus package, it looks like it will show moderate positive growth for 2008 while other economies have retrenched.
As a result, the company has retrenched and actually become less interesting, less valuable and clearly less able to produce high returns or create new jobs!
Christianity influenced and shaped the moral foundation of the modern world even as it retrenched and conceded space to secular thought in the realm of politics.
The average downturn after recent banking crises in rich countries lasted four years as banks retrenched and debt-laden households and firms were forced to save more.
Right now you could be employed, retrenched, retired or a student- you have the means and the opportunity to start your own company at this very minute.