Some of the credit goes to Germany's education and employment system for young workers, and to German policies that encourage employers facing downturns to reduce working hours rather than fire workers.
Sod's law decrees that, sooner or later, policymakers will face another downturn.
In Brighton, along with stocking their shopping streets with low-energy bulbsthere is a new plan to help retailers face economic downturn over Christmas.
Akzo has yet to gain shareholder approval for the bid, and some investors have said that shareholders may see the price as too high at a time when financial markets could face another downturn.
Presenters faced the downturn with jokes.
The economy faces a downturn, but women still want their mules.
With the industry facing a downturn, businesses should be able to negotiate lower contract room rates for 2009.
But a senior official of the Economic Planning Agency, which produces the report, denied it meant the economy was facing a downturn.
"The PRRT collects more revenue when profits are higher, and less when the industry faces a downturn.
Australia's economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of downturns in those of Japan and the United States, its biggest trading partners.
