Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JOBS AND THE ECONOMY] Says the economy is functioning at no better than a "fast crawl." Says a more 'pro-growth" economy, including lower taxes and reduced government regulation, is the best way to create more and better jobs. Reluctantly went along with the Democrats on the minimum-wage increase...
Hundreds of people stand outside a bank in a post-apocalyptic city that looks like a remnant of the Batman movie set. Spiders crawl on the hands of the tellers. Maniacal security guards laugh at the interminable queue of customers waiting to conduct their transactions...
Swallowing the first capsule, I wondered how exactly it would kick in. Within minutes my mouth dried up, as if I had swallowed a handful of cotton balls. Water and chewing gum soon solved that problem. Then halfway through Letterman, around the time of my nightly kitchen crawl, something peculiar happened. I zoomed in on a bowl of green pippin apples, fixating on their aesthetic beauty more than their sweet taste. I stared at them intensely, then decided I wasn't hungry after all. Instead, I sipped some cranberry juice and somehow felt satisfied...
Then they waited. Not much happened for the first three months, as the animals dragged their back legs. Then one day, a few of them started to flex their hind muscles. Awkwardly at first, and then with growing strength, they began to crawl around. A year later, they could support their weight and move their rear legs, although they were still not walking normally...
...toilets and a jock strap is enough to cure anyone complaining of sanity. Sure, a barber shop quartet starring disease-carrying vermin rates high on anyone's cuteness scale, but after a funk number, or a gospel number, or the film's opening chorus...one just wants to crawl under a carpet and take a quiet...