Word: clattered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Your biggest risk now is losing focus amid the clatter. Look on the bright side. The Fed has stopped raising interest rates for now. Earnings, while slowing, are still projected to be up 15% this year and 10% next. And any company that is going to post disappointing third-quarter results has probably already said so. So there won't be many more ugly surprises...
Everybody who attends a 9 a.m. class, or teaches one, is familiar with the tell-tale clatter as one of the participants loses the battle to stay awake and keep notepad and pencil from falling off the desk. Much the same situation pertains in 10 a.m. classes too. For the exhausted victim, catching up afterwards by reviewing material on the course website or borrowing someone else's notes means a double investment of time. Starting the lecture schedule later in the morning would not solve anything; it would just prolong the day at the other end, unless Harvard drastically reduced...
...worldwide. Inner-city suburbs echo to the screech of sulfur-crested cockatoos and the laughter of sturdy kookaburras; brilliant rainbow lorikeets hang upside down in fruit trees squabbling over berries. As night falls, mighty Port Jackson fig trees discharge clouds of flying foxes, while possums patrol urban gardens and clatter across the rooftops. Everywhere, in parks, gardens, at the water's edge, the luxuriant subtropical vegetation-mosses and ferns, cabbage palms, ash and she-oak, ancient angophora forests and a hundred species of gum tree-reminds the resident that humans have a tenuous hold on this land...
...time to turn off the machines when we come to nature. In summer small planes drone and snarl overhead. Helicopters clatter by from time to time--the newly rich ostentatiously commuting to their indulgences, their cash turned into blighting noise. This market has released too much money into the atmosphere in the form of private planes and onto the lakes and rivers as roostering speedboats and their juvenile-delinquent offspring, Jet Skis, which have the charm of chain saws. Loud, alien metal has colonized...