Word: dormant
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...long-term rates -- those that companies pay to finance / new plants or that apply to home mortgages -- have jumped as much as 2 percentage points in the U.S. and other industrial countries. That kind of spurt normally reflects lenders' fears of inflation, but inflation has been dormant all year, thanks at least partly to the Federal Reserve's vigilance. "What's going on with interest rates is more a scarcity of credit than a big rise in inflation expectations," maintains Roger Brinner, chief economist for the consulting firm...
...case, party moderates have not had much success in reversing the tide. "The people on the far right are much more interested, much more determined, much more motivated, than the centrists," says Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who 18 months ago helped organize the Republican Majority Coalition, a now dormant alliance of centrists...
...Wild Frontier, a basting of three episodes of a Disney-TV western, was a surprise box-office hit. For a few more years, television's prized anthology series, like Broadway, continued to spawn serious films: The Bachelor Party, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Days of Wine and Roses. A dormant period was broken in the late 1970s when the TV transfers showed a bit of new life with Star Trek: The Motion Picture; The Blues Brothers (first of the SNL films); and The Muppet Movie (from Jim Henson's syndicated menagerie). Despite this activity, though, it still had not really occurred...
Critics of the central bank contend that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan is jeopardizing the recovery by fighting the wrong war. Not only is inflation dormant, they argue, but Americans are working more efficiently in a fiercer, more global competition. The result is that today's U.S. economy can grow faster with fewer price increases than ever before. "The historic connection between economic growth and inflation has been broken," declares General Mills chairman H. Brewster Atwater Jr., whose company slashed the price of Wheaties 10% earlier this year. "There is very little evidence of any inflation in any of the businesses...
...mind and body, torturous physical therapy that proved unavailing, massive leaks of spinal fluid and altogether understandable despair. When the battle was over, when the addictive pain-killers and useless back braces and countless other palliatives were tossed aside, he was paralyzed and in perpetual pain. The cancer seems dormant now, but the doctors make no promises. Yet Price insists that in all but the worst few months "mine has been a happy life...