Word: creep
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...proof that the rebound will persist or that Thatcherism is a success. Although the Prime Minister is convinced that Britain is on the motorway to recovery, many economic experts have doubts. Even official Treasury projections indicate that growth will slow again, un employment will rise and inflation will creep upward over the next twelve to 18 months. Most of the government's economists are bracing for a jump in joblessness to 3.3 million by this fall. Nonetheless, the Prime Minister is unlikely to resort to Keynesian pump priming even if her policies remain slow to work...
...about half of which sit empty, at least for now. On most days this past summer there was so little traffic on the streets in town that drivers didn't pay attention to the traffic lights - except, that is, the student drivers from the Li Zhong Driving School, who creep slowly down the town's wide, untrafficked thoroughfares. But life won't feel lonely for long. There are 200,000 houses and apartments either under construction or planned for this city. Multiply that by 10 - the number of satellite cities going up around Shanghai alone - and you get a sense...
There's nothing like being in love. Minutes seem to creep and fly at the same time. We get lost on the way home, thinking of the next date. Music cries out to us alone, and the full moon winks our way. Long after other memories fade, the recollection of love lingers. It's pure magic. Or at least that's what we like to tell ourselves...
...airplane wing, the Trilogy of Terror jape about a Zuni fetish doll chasing Karen Black around her apartment - linger at the base of many a viewer's spine, three or four decades after they were first aired. Credit those residual shivers to a nonchalant, nonpareil master of the creep...
...much less than the going retail rates in the neighborhood - Savile Row tailors pay an average of $255 per square foot, while rents on nearby Regent Street are around $820 per square foot. Although the tailors will continue to receive substantial discounts, their rents will almost certainly continue to creep upward. "It will remain survival of the fittest," Rowland says...