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...unsustainable, debt-fueled consumer spending. There seems to be little controversy over whether the Fed should ease rates, but there's lots of controversy over when and how much. The Jan. 22 rate cut came as a shock, but it did seem to calm the markets, if not buoy them...
...watch out, a tremendous ego-inflator. Not that a surgeon's legendary ego needs growth - it's usually huge enough already. Sometimes that's a good thing: Much as Johnny's star confidence elevated the mood of the office, the surgeon's big ego can often buoy up a sick patient, maybe even firing up a parallel kind of confidence in the patients, which really makes them heal better. Oft-disgusted by the surgical ego, though, I was feeling wary of it and a little embarrassed of myself...
...years after Indonesia's deadly wave, Thai and U.S. experts are set to install next month the first tsunami-detection buoy -- loaded with seismic and tidal sensors--in the Indian Ocean...
...first song on the record, “Stuck Between Stations,” sets the tone. Big, direct, happy guitars buoy frontman Craig Finn’s tale of kids in Minnesota having sex, taking drugs, and getting dehydrated, making the night feel “stuck between stations / on the radio...
...campaign against Dwight D. Eisenhower. (A sample, from Kimball's The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin: "What a man for our future! / Equal him if you can. / Fearless attitudes / With no platitudes; / Inspirational - / He's sensational! / Adlai's sweeping the country! / America - here's your man!") But they can buoy spirits. Mel Brooks knows that, as do the Drowsy Chaperone team. All the 21st century fashioners of musical comedy are marching in the footsteps of the Gershwins and Mercer. No one yet has figured out how to fill their shoes...