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...spending. Bush's problem is that while the recession has been technically over for a year, this doesn't feel much like a recovery -- though many economists warn that this may be as good as it's going to get. Unemployment remains stubbornly high; the jobless rate continues to hover at 7.3%, a six-year peak, and experts say it will take a more robust rate of growth to make a dent in that figure. Typical recoveries since World War II have boasted growth rates of 5% and sometimes higher; by contrast, the current 2% rate is paltry, and unlikely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Used to It | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...that wacky computer spits out." He is keenly aware that getting there does not ensure staying there. The complex formula makes it possible to win a tournament yet lose ground to a just defeated opponent. But Courier seems to have the sturdy frame, stubborn persistence and stoic temperament to hover somewhere near the top for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unexpected And Unspoiled | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Javerbaum is perfectly removed as Brick, the ex-football player turned alcoholic. Shattered by the death of his friend and teammate, Skipper, Brick is even more hurt by the accusations that these two friends were homosexual lovers. For much of the play, Caplow has Javerbaum hover in the background as he drinks himself into peaceful oblivion. The few times that Javerbaum is required to express rage are more believable when contrasted with his normal drunken indifference...

Author: By Ross I. Daniels, | Title: Triumph on the Hot Tin Roof | 12/13/1991 | See Source »

...surface of Venus has never seemed very hospitable. Temperatures hover around 470 degrees C (900 degrees F), the result of a runaway greenhouse effect, and the pressure of its atmosphere, thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, is some 90 times that of Earth's. Lead would flow like water on Venus, and water cannot have existed in liquid form for perhaps a billion years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Blowup -- on Venus | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

Between answering phones, delivering t-shirts and papers to the studio and sitting in the make-up room during the show, I met or talked to most of the guests who came on the show. We didn't hold extended conversations, but the interns could hover as long as we weren't noticed...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: The First Line of Defense Against America's Nuts: | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

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