Word: hummed
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...global economy does continue to hum along, it will partly be by accident. What is conspicuously absent, the economists agreed, is a constructive dialogue between policymakers in China and the U.S. that would put the two nations' increasingly interdependent economic relationship on a more balanced footing. In that scenario, the U.S. would curb consumption and start saving more, while the Chinese--who have been buying hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. securities, especially U.S. Treasury bonds--would save less and do more to boost their domestic demand. That would go a long way toward reducing...
...gone away even if the dollar remains buoyant, he said, warning of a "dangerous degree of complacency" among investors. "The weakest link in the global growth chain in 2006 is the most important link, and that is the American consumer," Roach cautioned. If the economy does continue to hum along, it's partly by accident. What's conspicuously absent, the economists agreed, is a constructive dialogue between policymakers in both China and the U.S. that would put the two nations' increasingly interdependent economic relationship on a more balanced footing. Under this scenario, the U.S. would curb consumption and start saving...
...Schwarzenegger has shown a talent for speaking directly to voters over the perpetual partisan hum and appealing to their frustration about California's gerrymandered political system, which only two years ago returned to power every single state legislator. When those same politicians balked at his early efforts to balance the $80 billion budget, he put on a golf shirt and a leather jacket and made his populist case in California's open-air shopping malls. There was some of that same Reaganesque flair in his State of the State speech last week, as he invoked the tradition of Californians dreaming...
...MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, BUT BY MY SPIRIT. The platform below teemed with dignitaries plus three stately new garbage cans filled with donations. When King in his blue suit reached the bank of microphones, the noise receded no lower than a constant hum, and applause erupted again each time he paid tribute to their unity and purpose. "You are demanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor," he said...
...they’re either incredibly vague, or incredibly limited, depending on how you like your constitutional theory. The Constitution specifically enumerates a very mundane, ho-hum list of executive powers—things like receiving ambassadors, appointing officials to vacant positions during the recess of the Senate, and so on—yet none having to do with determining the level of danger at which constitutional prerogatives go by the way-side (that belongs, appropriately, to the judiciary). Likewise, the Constitution doesn’t provide for the executive to supersede any other law that might confound...