Word: hoping
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...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 in the capacity of the federal government's ability to find systemic problems in the financial sector...
...things go poorly. The reason for the hundreds of billions of dollars being added to the federal deficit is the belief that the government can buy its way out of the recession. If that does not happen, the average citizen will lose what has been his last, best hope for having a reasonable economic life instead of living through a multi-year period of national financial stagnation and intransigent, high unemployment. It will be a world in which almost no one believes that his life will ever improve...
...subjects says, "basically forced to do things outside of what would normally be considered to be moral or ethical"? Another probable cause of the suicides: maybe recruiters feel overwhelming guilt for being part of a system that sends recruits into a horrible, senseless war that they themselves experienced. I hope your story helps make some changes in this system. Dolores Perez Priem, San Francisco...
Clearly ready to begin the proceedings, the judge then makes a seemingly off-handed remark: “This is an informal conference. I hope that nobody is recording this, am I right...
...denying public office to anyone with a prison record or who was married to a foreigner. (Many NLD members have been thrown into jail, and Suu Kyi was married to a British academic who died of cancer.) (Read "In Burma, Even a Sham Election Is a Cause for Hope...