Word: calendaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just affects me much more powerfully than it does by reading about it," he says. "I force it onto my calendar because it keeps my passion...
...Such moments revivify nostalgia in the original, classical Greek sense: nostos (return) plus algos (pain). For years Walcott has divided his calendar equally between Boston, where he teaches literature and creative writing at Boston University, and a residence in Trinidad, a base for his frequent travels elsewhere in the Caribbean. This regular shuttling between two worlds has kept his poetry balanced between heartless skill and artless passion. The speakers of Walcott's poems are half strangers wherever they find themselves, not because they want to be but because they have no choice. In The Lighthouse, an island vendor approaches...
...beginning of the current one. And that, as Reaganites love to tell you, was an extraordinarily long period of growth. Perhaps you believe -- as the supply- side conservatives did during the 1980s and Keynesian liberals did for decades before -- that the business cycle has been abolished. If not, the calendar is against you: we cannot wait until full recovery from the current recession to begin serious deficit reduction and hope to have it completed before the next recession becomes an excuse to abandon the exercise...
...nine biggest one-day declines occurred during October, including Black Monday in 1929 and the Roaring Eighties crash of 1987. The last major collapse, the minicrash of 1989, also took place in October. While some traders suspect goblins, others blame more mundane forces. One is the so- called calendar effect, which is the result of October being the month when many corporations revise summertime earnings forecasts. Often those projections turn out to have been too rosy, forcing companies to cut estimates...
...fact, as historian Daniel J. Boorstin recounted in The Discoverers, 500 years earlier a civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...