Word: funk
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...other President, also a Democrat, regretted venturing into psychobabble. Bill Clinton, squatting in jeans in the press cabin of Air Force One, said as he geared up for his re-election run that he was "trying to get people to get out of their funk," provoking mocking headlines like DR. CLINTON, NATIONAL THERAPIST...
Bush's aides maintain that they're in no funk either. Previewing the final quarter of Bush's presidency, officials disclosed to TIME that the Administration is formulating a huge energy initiative designed to "change the whole nature of the discussion" and challenge the G.O.P., Democrats, the oil and electricity industries, and environmentalists. An adviser said Bush's views about global warming have evolved. "Only Nixon could go to China, and only Bush and Cheney--two oilmen--can bring all these parties kicking and screaming to the table," the adviser said...
...converge in 1999 after the family took the bus to the Grand Canyon. Andrea seemed tired and preoccupied on the drive home to Texas, recalls Rusty, who assumed she was suffering from aftereffects of the flu, which they all had had. But then she slipped into a deep funk. On June 16, 1999, crying and nearly hysterical, she called Rusty at work and asked him to come home. He found her in the back room of the bus. She was slumped in a chair, biting her fingers, her legs shaking even more uncontrollably than her hands. Rusty packed...
...DIED. Claydes Charles Smith, 57, a co-founder of the funk-pop band Kool and the Gang?once called the Jazziacs?whose instrumental-heavy monster hits of the '70s and '80s included Ladies' Night, Jungle Boogie, Joanna?which Smith wrote?and the now standard wedding anthem Celebration, which he co-wrote; after a long illness; in Maplewood, New Jersey...
Australia and New Zealand are drifting apart. The larger nation is buoyant and rich, while the smaller one is in a funk. The gap in average incomes between the countries has widened significantly in recent years to approximately 30%, drawing Kiwis across the Tasman in large numbers. Hanging over several of New Zealand's key industries (think banking), there's a branch-office stigma. Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello is chopping at tax rates with the glee of a burly bloke in a blue singlet. Kiwi workers complain that Costello's counterpart Michael Cullen is being a scrooge on fiscal...