Word: mountained
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There are more substantive reasons for questioning whether the surge will continue, even in subdued form. For one thing, it is regional rather than national, concentrated in the South, the Midwest and the Rocky Mountain states, especially Colorado; California is still in recession, and the Northeast no better than bumping along bottom. Of more general importance, people at the moment are spending more money than they are earning; personal income rose a strong 0.6% in October, but consumer spending jumped an even stronger 0.8%. Many analysts doubt that consumers can keep it up; savings are low, and debts remain high...
...Letter" at 4:15 and 7:45 and "Another Man's Poison" at 6 and 9:30 on Monday, Dec. 13. "Daughters of Darkness" at 4:15 and 7:40 and "The Velvet Vampire" at 6 and 9:30 on Tuesday, Dec. 14. "Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain" at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. on Wednesday...
...mine workers in the mountain town of El Cobre, west of Santiago de Cuba in Oriente province, where the revolution was born, are afraid of the dreamers in Havana. Oh, yes, Cuba needs to change, says a 57-year-old welder we'll call Alberto. "But we need something for everybody, not just for a few." He does not want his real name used, and he keeps looking nervously over his shoulder. "If they see me talking to you, tomorrow I will have trouble with the police," he says...
...story is not new. From the time Chinese Forty-Niners joined the California Gold Rush, Asians have tended to see America in terms of the old Cantonese name for San Francisco: Gao Gam Saan (Old Gold Mountain), or a land of economic opportunity above all. Nativist harassment of the newcomers, coupled with openly racist citizenship and immigration laws, encouraged the impulse to get ahead financially without bothering about assimilation into the mainstream society. Politics was something to be avoided. As an old Far Eastern maxim goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down...
Along a Murderous Mountain Path...