Word: hold
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...Administration may find that it would be better off to hold its tongue about the rate at which the deficit is growing. It is still forecasting that GDP will only drop 1.2% in 2009. That number is clearly improbable which should shake whatever confidence the taxpayers have in the forecast. Anyone watching the process of budget revision as the bottom line gets progressively worse understands that a $2 trillion deficit for the year is possible, and perhaps likely...
...unlikely to be many very important indicators until July. The rate at which unemployment is rising is supposed to slow. If so, May should be the last month that the figure can rise by more than 500,000. If June is much worse, then the recovery is hardly taking hold. Second quarter earnings for banks will have to be relatively strong or the hope of a rebound in the sector, which the "stress tests" indicated is possible, will dwindle. Investors may begin to think that the test criteria were too liberal. If that happens, the public's faith...
...would be better for Western governments to buy the crop above the black-market price for their pharmaceutical industries, even if it meant stockpiling or perhaps destroying some of the final product. The war cannot be won; the best that can be achieved is for the allies to hold the fort while every attempt is made to give the country some semblance of order. Buying a few tons of opium is likely to come cheaper in terms of both money and human life than the campaign has so far proved. Philip Foster, NARBONNE, FRANCE...
...recent newsworthiness to publicize his film, and wonder why he was not speaking out for her before her case attracted such international attention. Ghobadi said he had been ordered to keep silent by sources he could not reveal, and finally broke his silence when he "could no longer hold...
...include lessons on risk reduction, event planning, and bartending—with the Office of Alcohol and other Drug Services and the Student Activities Office. “I think the revision is really important because the old policy created an environment in which social groups were hesitant to hold social events—which I think was problematic to college life,” UC president Andrea R. Flores ’10 said. “I’m happy that a lot of UC members worked to clarify it.” —Staff...