Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economy is slowing from its blistering pace of late 1997 and early 1998, when growth rates ranged between 3.0% and 5.5% annually, and the sag is virtually certain to continue into next year. Given the continuing spread of the global financial crisis, from which the U.S. can no longer stay immune, "there must be a big slowdown," says Allen Sinai, chief global economist of Primark Decision Economics, a major forecasting firm. And next year, if the board's majority opinion is correct, the slowdown should cross the line into a growth recession. That is usually defined as a continuing increase...
...needy as Monica? Well, they were both fat girls with hair and work problems, and Tripp liked hearing awful things about Clinton, whom she despised and wanted to write a book about. By turns manipulative and sympathetic to the heartbroken Lewinsky, Tripp at one point wants to kick certain presidential body parts and "flatten [them] into little pancakes so he can never use them again." She presses Monica to hold out for "a kick-ass job." She slams Currie for her "sheer stupidity" in not helping Monica to see more of Handsome, who, by the way, tells Monica he doesn...
...always talking about their own abuse. TV news programs discuss the atrocities of children being killed or raped. It has a freak-show quality; it's titillating. Still, I don't think anybody could use the word titillating about my movie. I hope people see there's a certain...integrity to the proceedings...
...almost called you mom," Monica Lewinsky blurted to her so-called friend Linda Tripp, speaking clearly into a bugged phone line. In the girl-talk transcripts released last week, Linda's advice, feints and thrusts have a certain eloquence. For example, describing the epic in which she and Lewinsky are embroiled: "Whew, this is a weird movie." How could one not be affected? More examples of Tripp's wisdom--and tactics...
...When she meditates on issues of loss and redemption in the song "Man From Mars," for instance, she doesn't delve at all into this tumult of her recent times. Instead, she talks about her cat. While her cat (painted by Mitchell on the album art) does inspire a certain poignancy--as Mitchell earnestly describes it, a "big boo-hoo"--one wonders why she is hiding behind easy words, insubstantial synthesized sounds and--worst of all--lukewarm emotions...