Word: folke
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Steep declines in asset values pose not only a worry for economic growth, but also social stability, as ordinary folk watch their personal wealth evaporate. In China, the property sector accounts for 10% of national employment. Analysts believe that Beijing cannot afford a major collapse in the property market and will step in to aid developers and home buyers. Beijing already lent a hand to the faltering stock market in September by waiving taxes on some stock transactions to stimulate trading and ordering state agencies to buy up shares...
...explains how ‘narrative’ has hijacked the race in 2008. But it seems this time the stakes have been raised for the candidates. Beyond simply seeming like ‘authentic Americans’, they also have to highlight their encounters with regular-folk adversities and hardships; these aspects of their biographies have come to supersede all foreign affairs experience or a top-flight education.Thus, in a time when the economy is unraveling, international support is dissolving, and the average American is struggling to pay the bills, it seems that voters are still better won over...
...doctors who treat injured folk, we love the self-employed - they'll barely take the afternoon off to have surgery, and one way or another, manage to get back to work that week to keep the business going, get the mortgage paid and feed the family. Even among the salaried folks, we do see a good percentage who take sick-time fairly and responsibly. What a glaring contrast they are to the corporate or government employee whose minor injury keeps him out - but paid - for months at a time. Months during which we are forced to fill out ever more...
...legendary outsider trio Sun City Girls—who founded the label along with Hisham Mayet. The Sun City Girls, composed of Bishop and his brother Richard along with the late Charles Gocher, gained a considerable cult following with their prolific, eclectic output that runs the gamut from folk revival and psychedelic to noise, drone, and experimental world music. While Sublime Frequencies never released an SCG album, the parallels between the band’s evolution and the stylistic samplings of the label are abundant.The label’s mission and appeal can be described with a story about...
...making, but who knows it’s history when you’re just doing it,” Betsy Siggins Smith says of the past 50 years of Club Passim. Opened in 1958 as Club 47, Passim has served as a launching pad for several legendary folk musicians, including Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. Siggins Smith, the club’s artistic director, began her career at Passim as a waitress in 1959, crossing over the Charles from Boston University to Cambridge with close friend Joan Baez. Today, Passim continues to provide opportunities for unknown artists...