Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it arrives, into a painfully weak one. Despite upticks in home sales and factory orders that indicate the 11-month-old slump could end this summer, economists say the ) rebound will be far less robust than any of the eight other U.S. recoveries since World War II. The outlook is bleak largely because the 1980s debt binge still hobbles companies and consumer spending and makes banks unwilling to lend. At the same time, the $318 billion federal deficit handcuffs Washington's ability to stimulate business by cutting taxes and boosting spending -- tactics that helped the U.S. come roaring...
...mortality is normal at 20, but impossible at 66. Bush again came face to face with the prospect of dying five weeks ago after his heart began to fibrillate as he was jogging at Camp David. The result has been a subtle but unmistakable change in Bush's outlook and demeanor. In both public and private, he has become more candid and confiding, less guarded and much funnier. His patrician reserve has cracked a bit and the emotions he has long held in check are suddenly visible...
...really interesting to talk to him because I'm in a university as a student and he's on the other side," says Sonya, adding that she often has a different outlook on her classmates' criticisms of university actions. "He asks me for my perspective too," she says...
...rooms available in the U.S., almost half are vacant every night. Since an average hotel needs 65% occupancy to break even, that translates into an estimated industry loss of $1.7 billion last year, a record, and this year looks worse. Says Randy Smith, who publishes the authoritative newsletter Lodging Outlook: "I've been doing research on the hotel industry for 20 years, and this first quarter beats anything I have ever seen...
This was the ideal, anyway. But Big Science costs big bucks and breeds a more mundane and calculating kind of outlook. It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to run a modern biological laboratory, with its electron microscopes, ultracentrifuges, amino-acid analyzers, Ph.D.s and technicians. The big bucks tend to go to big shots, like Baltimore, whose machines and underlings must grind out "results" in massive volume. In the past two decades, as federal funding for basic research has ebbed, the pressure to produce has risen to dangerous levels. At the same time, the worldly rewards of success...