so dry she's combustible.

We don't want to be energizing anything if it's in an atmosphere with combustible gases.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.