Steak is a symbol of doing well, and with so many people doing well in the Island's red-hot economy, it makes sense that more people are eating it.

The conflicts revealed by the property law are not simply growing pains of a red-hot economy, as China's leaders would have it, to be resolved by shifting perks or property rights.

The red-hot American economy was already projected to cool off slightly in response to a series of interest rate increases engineered by the Federal Reserve.

China has already replaced the United States as Japan's biggest trading partner, and many Japanese now see their nation's and their own personal future as linked to Asia's red-hot economies.

The reason is simple: everybody wants a piece of the red-hot Chinese economy.

Spurred by a red-hot economy, they are also demanding, and getting, entertainment in those neighborhoods, as well as in communities that have traditionally been residential.

Would the Bush plan extend the long business expansion or lead the red-hot economy to blow a gasket?

An opportunity because, with the red-hot national economy surging, people here believe Main Street is coming back.

Most of the improvement at the bottom was because of people working more hours rather than for higher wages: a red-hot economy provided more jobs.

The red-hot economy of the 1990's made it possible for him to raise spending, cut taxes and still build up more than $3 billion in savings.