Word: depression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Could a Gay Marriage Amendment Help Harold Ford? The deciding factor in the heated Tennessee Senate race could be a confusing ballot measure law that might ultimately depress G.O.P. turnout
...more vigilant enforcement, not arbitrarily limiting wine sales to liquor stores and a select few grocery stores lucky enough to get permits. We’re also skeptical that Question One’s passage would cause towns to become flooded with seedy, alcohol-distributing convenience stores that depress the local community—though many more licenses will be available, local licensing commissions will retain control over which businesses actually get them. Ultimately, it’s hard to take seriously the liquor lobby’s concerns about the evils of expanding wine sales and warnings that passing...
Greenspan's successor at the Fed, the academic economist Ben Bernanke, was in a quandary. Should he worry about growth or inflation? Inflation was creeping up, and yet the combination of higher interest rates and higher fuel prices threatened to depress consumption. Bernanke's apparent indecision unnerved the financial markets. By the time the slide in real estate prices signaled the onset of a full-blown recession, the Fed was badly behind the curve...
...airlines are in a precarious spot. They may have to pass on the cost of jet fuel--up more than 20%--to ticket holders, which could depress air travel. Northwest, for one, warned that higher fuel prices could tip it into bankruptcy...
...disproportionately afflicts its population. “Life is 10 percent what life does to you, and 90 percent how you respond to it,” Bryant said. “It’s about choices—are you going to evolve or devolve, impress or depress?” Bryant is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, America’s first non-profit social investment banking organization...