Word: outlook
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...EARLY EVENING OF DEC. 7, A small group of economic advisers met secretly with Bill Clinton at Blair House in Washington. Their message was depressing: The long-term outlook for the nation's economy is worse than the public appreciates; the euphoria surrounding the latest growth figures is unfounded; and some of the underlying assumptions behind the economic plan Clinton embraced during the campaign are wrong. "Blair House," as it is now referred to in shorthand among a close circle of Clinton aides, was not a pleasant meeting. The President-elect feared that his advisers had misled him during...
Despite all those challenges, the panelists agreed, the outlook for Canada in the years leading to 2000 compares very favorably with that of other industrialized nations. William Thorsell, editor in chief of the Toronto-based Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, pointed out that Canada is enjoying record merchandise exports to the U.S., a performance that is likely to improve further with the recent weakness of the Canadian dollar. Canada is becoming lean and productive, he said, predicting that "we could have by mid- decade a strongly reviving economy...
Ironically enough, many of the Core courses that are supposed to provide students with a broader intellectual outlook are much more narrow in their scope than departmental introductory courses...
...these borrowed concepts.) Still others shout for Yeltsin to crack the whip and get the old nags moving faster. But however bumpy the ride, if reform is really to take hold, every Russian must somehow arrive at an internal alteration of his or her mental outlook, a fresh landscape of the mind, to suit the new system. In the meantime, the troika is weighed down by some peculiarly Russian < baggage...
Homely values, so simple and yet, it seems, so elusive, are apparently the secret of her exemplary reign. In Elizabeth R, the Queen becomes eloquent when reflecting on her own outlook. She recalls the moment when she gave a young soldier an award for gallantry: "I said, 'That was a very brave thing to do.' He said, 'Och, it was just the training.' I have a feeling that, in the end, probably that is the answer to a great many things...