Word: downturns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recession. It was a national mentality. It gave meaning to American politics and drove popular culture. From Tom Harkin's government works projects ideas to popular support for tax cuts (and even throwing out the weighty tax system), the recession was not limited to being a small, temporary downturn in the business cycle. God no! It was the fucking Great Depression all over again. It was Heaven's judgement on the United States. Government was supposed to stop everything and end the recession--no, not the recession: the RECESSION...
...recession cuts both ways for area businesses. While the number of pages dedicated to advertisements has declined during the recession, the economic downturn has also created a window of opportunity for those businesses able to invest more in their ad budgets...
...this downturn more than in any other recent downturn, people are more likely to be permanently unemployed," said the economist...
...year peak. Turnout in primaries is even lower than usual, and much of the stay-at-home electorate may be too bitter to bother to vote in November. The recession is seen as a talisman of America's long-term economic decline, rather than just as a cyclical downturn. The House-bank scandal underscores the impression that Congress is mired in corruption. "There's something out there of major significance," says University of Texas political scientist Walter Dean Burnham. "Thank God we're not a culture that produces Fuhrer figures very easily. Because the underlying conditions that do that...
Basically we like the free market only as long as the trend is up. As soon as the inevitable downturn occurs, we complain bitterly and expect the government to fix things. We want to have it both ways -- the energy and dynamism of capitalism, plus stability and security. It is simply impossible to square the circle completely. But we seem to be working out a new geometry. We are rethinking the interaction between the government, private enterprise, the local community and the individual...