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...this economic downturn has the potential to put a bigger dent in happiness than the past few. Unemployment is expected to rise higher than it did in the recessions earlier in the decade and in the 1990s. And economists and psychologists, not surprisingly, agree that unemployment is a big downer...
...even the effects of job losses on the general mood of the country may be mild. A study that came out last month about how your happiness affects friends and neighbors - and even friends of friends and friends of neighbors - showed that the downer effect of some portion of the population's losing their jobs will have only limited reverberations on the mood of the rest of the country...
...real downer about this all is that the groups that are being hardest hit are our most cherished temperate flowering species: orchids, buttercups, roses, dogwoods, violets,” Davis said. “These are the kind of species that people go out on botanical forays to see, and now they can’t see them...
...goals. The Raiders scored two goals within 40 seconds to swing the momentum its way. “I guess for a few minutes we let down our guard and they got two quick goals,” Killorn said. “That was kind of a downer, but then we scored in the second period, so we knew we could build back up. We were happy we could come back and persevere.”Harvard found the back of the net for the first time at 4:08 in the second period. Moriarty won a faceoff...
...theater director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has a Really Big Idea for a play, an obsession that upends his life and leads to madness. Charlie Kaufman's comedy about artistic ambition is challenging, invigorating and, if you go with it, brilliant fun. It's like a suicidal Fellini film--a downer...