I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.