| 1 | Advances in medical science have made it possible to cure many so-called chronic diseases. | |
| 2 | But for Germany, the only answer to Europe's ills is to reduce borrowing and debt. | |
| 3 | Besides supposed stagnation, the two other curses of the Japanese economy are debt and deflation. | |
| 4 | The short-sighted reprieve led to a huge rally in the shares of stricken banks such as Citigroup. | |
| 5 | The latter had his suspicions, indeed, that even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's bodily disease had never fairly been revealed to him. |