Brazil's most celebrated architect Oscar Niemeyer turns 100 today still very much alive, lucid, working and involved in many projects.

1. Approves, with effect from 1 March 2001, the revised base scale of gross and net salaries for staff in the Professional and higher categories, contained in the annex to the present resolution

The type of EO, its principles of operation, net explosive quantity and designed terminal effects will all contribute to the consequence of the inadvertent initiation of the EO.

Japan s ability to sustain high fiscal deficits, low interest rates, and net capital exports has been possible because of its high private saving rate, which has kept national saving positive.

And, when the economy has flexible exchange rates, if government spending raises interest rates, the currency will strengthen, leading to a decrease in investment and net exports.

The net effect of all those harmful actions was excess carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, holes in the ozone layer over the North and South Poles and rising global temperatures.

The annual capital inflow is equal each year to the US current account deficit the sum of the trade deficit plus the net interest and dividends that America s government and businesses owe to the rest of the world.

2. Approves, with effect from 1 March 2002, as recommended by the Commission, the revised base scale of gross and net salaries for staff in the Professional and higher categories, as contained in annex IV to the present resolution

Once again, the clear message to the US was to stop using gimmicks like fiscal stimulus or printing money and instead undertake a serious longer term economic restructuring to boost saving, investment, and net exports.

1. Notes that the margin between net remuneration of the United Nations staff in grades P 1 to D 2 in New York and that of officials in comparable positions in the United States federal civil service in Washington, D.C., for the period 1 January to 31 December 2006, is 114.3