Word: echoing
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...small jet with Ted Kennedy, his family and a few friends, I thought of another convention 28 years before. It was the one Kennedy addressed in New York City after losing the Democratic nomination for President to Jimmy Carter. The speech Kennedy hoped to deliver in Denver would echo the earlier one, although a slight change in the closing words would make for a profound shift in mood. The robust Kennedy of 1980, announcing "The dream shall never die," was a young lion in winter, defiant in his beliefs even in defeat. The ailing Kennedy of 2008, stricken with incurable...
Pedro Canabal, spokesman for Mexico's Tax Administration Service, which oversees the customs agents, seemed to echo policy recommendations like Rand's last weekend when he emphasized the importance of more sophisticated training and detection equipment - of better cops rather than better copters. "We need more than just a body with a weapon," said Canabal. He gets it. And if the Mexicans get it, it's about time the Americans...
...Still, after nearly a year of relentlessly grim economic news, the reaction to Thursday's revelation in Germany and France - Europe's first- and second-largest economies respectively - tended to echo Moec's upbeat bottom line that the two countries had "extricated themselves from recession, which can only be good." Stock markets sure thought so: London's FTSE 100 index rose 1.3% on the news, and Wall Street followed indices elsewhere in Europe with more modest gains. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
This is not meant as a condemnation of maximizing fun and living casually. I am committed to wearing runner-soled shoes, watching The Simpsons and making back-of-the-classroom wisecracks on Twitter. But the rampant juvenillization of national life does echo and reinforce unfortunate habits of mind. What do the naughtiest children do? They scream and cry and tell outrageous fibs, like Glenn Beck...
...stimulus package includes spending to strengthen social safety nets and boost domestic consumption, such as subsidies for rural consumers to buy selected electronic goods. In an echo of America's wildly popular cash-for-clunkers car program, a new initiative grants consumers in four provinces and five cities 10% discounts if they trade old electronic goods for new ones. The amounts allocated have been criticized as piddling, but their inclusion in the stimulus spending indicates that China's planners recognize the importance of domestic consumption as a driver of growth, given the steep fall in demand for Chinese exports because...