Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sinai, the output of American goods and services will rise a lackluster 2.6% in 1998, with consumer prices going up a tiny 1.4%. Corporate profits will increase a hair less than 6.5% (vs. 10% last year). Unemployment will rise to 5% by year-end, while interest rates will drop to just under 5.5% on 30-year Treasury bonds. In sum, says Sinai, the economy will be "downshifting from great times to good times." Not surprisingly, the 1997 combination of output's leaping almost 4% while unemployment shriveled to a 24-year low of 4.6% was just too good to last...
...thereof, there are certain people who have their laundry done every week by HSA Cleaners. They bear in silence the knowledge that their Harvard classmates must occasionally load quarters into a washer and dryer, while all they do is walk to their accustomed depot on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, drop off or pick up their laundry and then waltz away. They don't worry about fabric softener, bleach, detergent or the gentle cycle. Permanent press sounds like a never-ending basketball game. Gentle cycle sounds like a mellow day on their bikes...
...difficult for a peer counseling group to up and move. Our commitment to confidentiality makes it more difficult," the senior co-director said. "Two people have to be able to drop in with some amount of confidentiality, and you can't [be able to] hear through...
...near life-size, black silhouette in Walker's current Carpenter Center exhibition features a black man hunched over a banjo, a long drop of drool descending from his distended lower lip. Behind him, a kerchief-capped girl reaches to turn the enormous screw-key sprouting from his back like that of a wind up doll. Recalling the tradition of black minstrelsy, the key also suggests a brutally-planed pair of scissors--a silhouette cutter's tool craftily inscribed within the silhouette. This image alone might be taken as an icon for the controversy surrounding Walker's work, as viewers question...
Sitting sullen and silent on the ledge of a BankBoston window, Daniel sits before a cardboard box with a couple of dollar bills in it, moving only to crack a happy smile and nod enthusiastically to passersby who stop and drop him some change...