Word: feel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then there are the homeless in the Square. We rarely give money. We hate it when they open the door to CVS for us, because we'll feel obligated to give on the way out. "She tells you to have a nice day to make you feel guilty." "He was wearing a Nautica jacket and begging for change. What's up with that?" "He smells." "She's fat." I have heard worse, often from the very same students who rave about their public service programs. In those moments, I know Harvard students do not care about the poor...
Nevertheless, this rosy picture has blemishes. Private-sector savings in the U.S. have hit a historic low: -4% of gross domestic product, according to Hormats. "This private-sector deficit is enormous," he says. People feel flush enough, due to their soaring stock portfolios, to keep buying consumer goods on credit--the so-called "wealth effect." But a drop in the Dow Jones index or some other shock could quickly erase those paper gains and choke off the spending boom. So while the Clinton Administration is touting consumption-driven growth, Dresdner Bank's Ernst-Moritz Lipp is critical. "We shouldn...
...Financial institutions have used the time to weed their portfolios and especially to reduce their exposure to high-risk regions and sectors. That helped international markets shake off Brazil's latest shudder. The downside is that emerging economies are largely off the horizon of foreign portfolio managers, who feel safer on Wall Street no matter how giddy its prices. As Naim notes, Amazon.com now has a market capitalization that exceeds the entire stock market of Argentina...
With such delicate positions to navigate, it's not surprising that the initiative process, which encourages simplistic laws like Oregon's Measure 58, has not provided a solution. It will take more careful legislation to let adoptees feel whole, even as the few Cindys of the nation feel safe...
...find that I feel an unwholesome fury. I try to talk myself down from it by thinking good thoughts about Clinton--his complexity, his political gifts, his good heart, as I used to believe. It cannot be good for my own heart to harbor these toxins--frustration, a sense of outraged justice, contempt...