Word: chillness
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...Street now regard with disdain. Investors fret that Clinton's proposed tax hikes and forthcoming plans to finance health-care reform would slow the economy, squeeze corporate profits and thereby bring stock prices down. At the same time, critics charge that Clinton's often wishy-washy style has helped chill business and consumer confidence. "A weak presidency always makes markets very nervous," says Stephen Bell, the Washington-based managing director of Salomon Brothers. "We saw that late in the Bush Administration, and we're seeing it now under Clinton. People are having doubts that Clinton is up to the task...
Trillin candidly describes his own fumbling attempts to adjust: "I was remarkably easy to fool." Others, like Denny, never found their feet again. His jobs grew less significant, and influential friends dropped away. He never married. At a Big Chill session, one mourner suggests that the deceased had "unreasonably high standards." Another concludes that he was a suppressed homosexual. Still another observes that despite the scholar-athlete's "million-dollar smile," he was an emotional basket case, suffering from clinical depression...
...Salam Mosque is a chill, bare room that begs to go unnoticed. Street light dimly filters through the thick layers of blue paint and grime that coat all four windows. Sound echoes off the barren walls, and the ceiling leaks so badly that buckets must be placed strategically when it rains. The only furniture is a single high-backed wooden chair, a place of honor for such spiritual leaders as Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. For most of its eight years, the cavernous mosque on the third floor of a white brick building along Jersey City's Kennedy Boulevard has attracted...
...face, was not as restrained. "If that fee goes up to $2 or $3 we are broke, out of business," he said with the sweep of a giant, scarred hand. By the weekend, Theos was back out in his sheep camps and Dickinson was in a wind chill near zero with his two sisters, brother and parents, all getting ready for the new calves that will begin arriving in a couple of weeks. "That's one of the problems," he said. "We've got to be here, and our future is being debated there...
Columbia's shooting was colder than the wind chill factor outside Levien Gymnasium, as they shot only 38 percent from the field (22 percent in the first half) and scored only seven field goals in the first half. HARVARD, 85-69 at Levien Gymnasium Harvard 43 42 -- 85 Columbia...