Word: flushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LANDS Even in these flush times, prison populations are at an all-time high. Is this what they mean by Southern hospitality...
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...
...wife jokes with him; make sure your new partner isn't a murderer, she says. When not in crisis, Flodin, the dutiful Earth Mother, still demonstrates against a proposed nuclear-waste dump site nearby. Mayor Jack Jouaron, 68, loves it when she comes to city hall with her leaflets, flush with political passion. "For an old man like me, it was something to talk to a beautiful blond Swedish girl like her," says Jouaron, who wonders how she can be so serene...
...overall size of the Faculty has failed to grow since 1987--despite 20 new positions paid for by the flush coffers of the Faculty in the last 18 months...
...climbed to 7,100 a night in 1997 after hitting a low of 6,000 in 1994. Homelessness has roiled San Francisco for much of the '90s: the Coalition for the Homeless estimates that 16,000 people are homeless there each night, twice as many as 10 years ago. Flush economic times may contribute to the problem: in many cities housing prices have soared out of reach of poor residents...