Word: either
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Little wonder that in the aftermath of a record contraction in U.S. consumer spending in late 2008 - 4% average annualized declines in the final two quarters of the year in real terms - every major economy in Asia either slowed sharply or tumbled into deep recession. More than ever, the region's fate remains made in America...
...most people, being caught in an enclosed space with either a terrorist or a ventriloquist would qualify as a hostage situation. But Jeff Dunham, a ventriloquist, is perhaps the most popular stand-up comedian in the U.S. And he broke through by playing straight man to a terrorist - a fiberglass...
...butt. It says MADE IN CHINA." But through him, Dunham taps into a repertoire of Muslim stereotypes. Achmed spells his name "A ... C ... phlegm ..." and he's dismayed when he looks into the audience for the 72 virgins he was promised as a martyr, and they are either ugly or men. Nor is Achmed the only one of Dunham's workmates exploring the outer edges of taste. In the regular rotation are Hispanic José Jalapeño, grumpy old Walter, black "manager" Sweet Daddy Dee, redneck Bubba J, and Peanut, the bad kid. All of them are politically incorrect, gratuitously insulting...
...rise to that level of drama. It's more a persistent, slow-burning question: What are we going to do with all this ... stuff? Over the past decade, schools like Princeton, NYU, Cornell, Harvard and Ohio State have each instituted some sort of program to collect unwanted items and either donate them to charity or sell them at the beginning of the following term...
...Verona as annoying as the smug yupsters in those New York Times commercials? It could be the movie they're in, a bloated, criminally judgmental borderline-comedy about Burt and Verona and the friends they are loftily superior to. Virtually every supporting character in Away We Go is either a repellent caricature deserving contempt or a crippled thing cadging for our sympathy. To director Sam Mendes, they're nothing but point-provers, put on display to show the deviant behavior our two winsome leads, or any sentient member of the audience, would instantly reject. (Watch TIME's Video: 10 Questions...