Word: outlook
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Uncertainty over interest rates and the economic outlook is behind all the turbulence. Expect more. Consider last Tuesday, when the government reported a slowing in manufacturing activity and, more important, a noninflationary 0.6% rise in labor costs in the first quarter. The news sent the Dow surging 179 points, its second best daily performance ever. A day later, investors applied the brakes on hearing that the economy grew an astounding 5.6% in the first quarter--too fast for comfort. But a closer look at the numbers showed inflation remained dormant. Don't put away the Dramamine just yet. The markets...
Another aspect of my feminist outlook on life concerns children. When I became a feminist, I decided to start pretending that I hated them--even though I enjoyed teaching young children for over five years at my church. For Russian women, it is a luxury to stay at home with their children. After being pressured to work during the Soviet period, being a stay-at-home mom is a completely new phenomenon for them. There was one group of people in Russia that obliterated my association between weakness and being a stay-at-home mom. The strongest people...
...America became more diverse and relativistic in its outlook, this approach became untenable...
Radcliffe's outlook on the tournament was different last year...
...also not worried about getting pigeonholed for his style and outlook. "'Dark' is a good word, it seems to me." But he modestly disavows the book jacket's comparison of him to Mark Twain and Nathanael West, saying, "these are nice people, but they needed to say something...