Massive adjustments in inventories boosted growth to an annual average of 5% in the first quarter of 2002; then the recovery petered out.Most observers had expected a slowdown, but few foresaw a second quarter figure of 1.1%.
"They all have a fixed exchange rate and have to make these massive adjustments, so people are asking whether they are on the right path".
North Korea, the world's most ideologically rigid communist state, has begun to abandon some of the principles it has long held most dear.So secretive is this country that official newspapers have yet to mention the massive adjustments of wages and prices that began on July 1st.
The Brazilian economy is definitely showing signs of resilience, given the massive adjustments among the developed economies.
With Heinz's stringent streamlining strategy moving forward which has already resulted in the closing or exiting of 21 factories and businesses it shouldn't be a surprise to see a couple of minor fine-tuning adjustments to follow the massive dumping it made yesterday.
report continues: Given the massive adjustment needed and the social and economic pain it would entail, this government would need to be inclusive, credible and enjoying broad-based popular support.
A WWF report produced in collaboration with the Australian National University argues Australia could source 100% of its power from renewables by 2050 – without incurring massive adjustment costs or depressing economic growth – if there were clear and stable national policy settings to support investment in renewables.
"Even with a healthy marriage, there is a massive adjustment," said Anita Gorecki, a lawyer and former Army captain who represents soldiers near Fort Bragg and is married to an officer currently in Iraq.
The debt-ceiling absolutists grossly underestimate the massive adjustment costs of a self-imposed "sudden stop" in debt finance.
Mr. Moss said the invention, by John C. Meyer of Belleair Bluffs, Fla .(patent No.6,494,404), would require "a massive adjustment of ground equipment we currently have today".
