In an e-mail message to Mr. Harrison, the Saks chairman assured him the Tahari sample room was not a sweatshop, a term used by Chase's lawyers in a court hearing, and suggested that the fire safety issues were an attempt to "weaken the terms and conditions of Tahari's current lease".
Despite the complaints, the government weakened the terms of the deal shortly after the bailout, perhaps to the benefit of shareholders, according to a separate NYT report.
Although that looks unlikely in the short term, especially if economies weaken, the long-term chances of higher inflation must surely have gone up.
In this paper, a reassignment method is used, which can improve the concentration of the scalogram and weaken the interference terms to a certain extent; thus, the readability of the scalogram can be improved.
Mr. Bernanke has said that short-term spending cuts could weaken the economy, while a long-term plan to reduce spending could increase growth.
However, today's events in no way weaken the government's long-term commitment to rebuilding Christchurch and surrounding areas".
The United States government, the Chinese argue, would like the Chinese to buy the country's bonds, but seems determined to weaken the dollar's long-term prospect by adopting loose monetary policies, thereby undermining the value of China's huge holdings of Treasury bonds.
Though such a move could cap the yen's rise in the short term, intervention by Japan alone is not expected to do much to weaken the currency in the longer term — especially because Tokyo is unlikely to find much support from other big currency players like the United States or the European Union, both of which are quite happy for Japanese exports to stay uncompetitive.
Such a move could cap the yen's rise in the short term, intervention by Japan alone is not expected to do much to weaken the currency in the longer term especially because Tokyo is unlikely to find much support from other big currency players like the United States or European Union, both of which are quite happy for Japanese exports to stay uncompetitive.
"It's clear that if you cut expenditures and raise taxes, it will weaken the growth in the short term," he conceded.
