Word: anew
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Separated from his father and living on the other side of the world, Edgar, his mother and brother had to begin life anew. “Once we settled in Memphis, we had to find a house, a car, a school…and basically just start all over again”, Edgar says. “All I had were the clothes in my suitcase, because I had fooled myself into thinking we were only going to be away from Sierra Leone for a week or so”. Edgar had visited the United States before on vacation...
...automatic recount. Ever since, Gore has been cast in the role of sore loser whose congressional support could evaporate in an instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people don't mind waiting for a thorough recount and then open the next segment with the question "When, in the name of the American people, will this madness...
...stock market has been dishing out more stiff lessons than a cranky schoolteacher back from summer break. Five months after what just about everyone figured was a bottom, stock indexes are plunging anew. Last week the Standard & Poor's 500 dipped below its April 4 low, and it has now erased more than three years' worth of gains. The NASDAQ and Dow are flirting with their April lows...
...propping up GDP growth to 1.7 percent almost single-handedly. They did it in the second quarter, when GDP growth slipped to 0.2 percent - only a stronger-than-expected 2.5 percent boost in consumer spending kept overall growth from tipping into negative territory and setting off the recession bells anew. They?ve done it all year, shopping resolutely even as cost-cutting companies have announced nearly 1 million layoffs thus far in 2001. And they've been doing it even as they slide ever deeper into personal debt...
...their allies on Capitol Hill. The phones began to hum; e-mail chains were forged. Before long, the Pentagon had the Hill pledging to stop just about any Clinton proposal the military didn't like. When rumors of Rumsfeld's cuts began to circulate, the wires began to clatter anew. "What the uniformed guys put in place to undermine the last President," said a top Pentagon official under Clinton, "was now being used to undermine Rummy...