Instead he ordered spending cuts and then tax rises to trim the budget deficit from 11% of GDP in 2009 to 6% next year.
The unemployment rate increased to 4.9percentt, as bankruptcies rose and companies trimmed jobs in the aftermath of an economic downturn last fall and winter.
[C2.] Japanese Unemployment at Record The number of Japanese workers looking for jobs climbed to 4.9percentt in February, a record high, as bankruptcies rose and companies trimmed jobs in the aftermath of an economic downturn last fall and winter.
He's shown planting flowers and trimming rose bushes, and he doesn't seem at all neurotic -- except perhaps for the delight he seems to take in his preoccupation with death.
THE BREAKDOWN The Pakistani military's Strategic Plans Division, the office that oversees the country's nuclear-weapons systems, is headquartered in a colonial-era compound of whitewashed bungalows, rose bushes, and trimmed lawns in the Chaklala garrison, a military base in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
He renovated two century-old buildings, using salvaged wood and old bricks, then painted them pastel blue and rose with neat, white trim.
Trim each rose you're using down to size.
MetLife, the No. 1 life insurer in the country, said yesterday that its second-quarter earnings rose 12percentt as it trimmed expenses.
The largest bank in Spain and Latin America, Banco Santander Central Hispano, said second-quarter profit rose 30percentt as it trimmed costs and its Brazilian operation began contributing to profit.
Stock prices rose modestly on Friday, trimming the second weekly drop so far this year for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, as gains in commodity and energy companies amid rising oil prices offset an unexpected decline in new-home sales.
