The basic strategy is, as Mr. Ungar has pointed out to us so well, is to defeat the Democrats, Obama, by depleating the coffers of the unions who are most likely to support them, but in addition to this, the strategy is to further depress or at least continue to depress the economy to avoid the kind of turn around that reprieved Mr. Clinton.
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It has not intervened in foreign exchange markets to depress the dollar as the Chinese does routinely to depress its yuan.
An even simpler approach is for central banks to depress interest rates so that real returns to investors are negative.
"If more and more countries attempt to depress their currencies, this could lead to competitive devaluations that will only know losers, " he said.
That is because higher interest rates are likely further to depress house prices, which had risen to giddy heights before suffering a reverse this year.
In the 1980s, the owners were found to have colluded to depress the market for free agents and to make quiet agreements to stop going after the top players from other teams.
Though a number of analysts expect inventory problems to depress holiday sales of gadgets, Apple is believed to have insulated itself from such problems.
Now that's a thought to depress you if you're on the wrong side of 40.
There is another option: to fiddle the figures, perhaps by cutting fuel taxes to depress inflation.
Don't North Korea's southern-pointing missiles tend to depress values and make the artists nervous?
Prosperity is likely to depress turnout among mainstream folk, so activists will be decisive.
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have been engaging in various maneuvers to depress the value of their currencies.
The Soviet invaders have come to depress and destroy our way of life.
Combined with slumping demand, the rebound in supply may continue to depress prices.
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"It's the chance to depress more people than we've ever depressed in one go, " said guitarist and songwriter Martyn Peck.
All of this is likely to depress turnout among social conservatives who are already furious about immigration and Washington corruption.
While there is much foreign interest in developing Iran's oil and gas sectors, two factors work to depress such investment.
The snag is that in the short run reforms that reduce job protection are more likely to depress consumer spending.
The main impact of the property downturn will be to depress construction.
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Managers can still choose when they release negative information, for example, to depress the stock price before they get a new slug of shares.
As expectations of deflation become entrenched 35% of Japanese expect prices to be the same or lower in five years' time they will continue to depress consumption.
Private pensions are different, but some economists think a smaller working population will tend to depress the value of financial assets and that will in turn affect pensions.
And what really struck me and then began to depress me about my return flight home was that they were very much in the same situation we were in.
These travelling waves occur hundreds of times a night, and most commonly at a frequency, 1 cycle per second, which has been shown to depress the activity of synapses.
Another factor may be the impact of density, which, Cox demonstrates, tends to depress fertility rates not only here in the United States, but through much of the world.
The report cited the previously disclosed decision of Marathon Ashland to withhold some of its cleaner burning gasoline from the market "so as not to depress prices" in the spring of 2000.
And to keep its exchange rate pegged to the dollar, China has been buying vast amounts of American Treasury bonds, which has helped to depress bond yields and mortgage rates, fuelling America's property boom.
In Britain, the committee warned that the labour market appeared to have reached a "turning point" and that the prospect of rising unemployment was likely to depress consumer spending which had been keeping the economy afloat.
Thus so long as China's wages and the prices of its goods remain well below those in rich countries (see right-hand chart, above), its increasing penetration of world markets will continue to depress prices for many years.
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