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Overhanging the economic outlook is the dark cloud of jobs. With unemployment at 9.7%, underemployment (which includes those working part-time and those who have given up looking for work) at 16.8% and consumer confidence taking an unexpected 10-point drop in February, Americans are still feverishly chasing bargains. Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com, believes unemployment will hit 10.3% before peaking later this year...
...entry in the appendix, Faulkner includes the exultations, “He was emancipated now. He was free.” The last remnants of high Southern white society crumble away as the individual enters modernity. Jason destroys one world to enter another. Though Jason’s sardonic outlook leads him to sacrifice his family’s proud history, it also allows him to find individual liberation...
6.FM: Do you think that you have a different outlook from other professors in English departments...
...study highlights the difficulty in treating dying children. Parents find it intolerable to witness their child in pain. Yet few parents, understandably, wish to concede that their child's illness is incurable. And that reluctance, combined with an uncertain outlook for many pediatric cancers, makes it much more difficult for caregivers to map out end-of-life treatment plans for seriously ill children. "An uncertain prognosis should be a signal to initiate, rather than to delay, palliative care," wrote the authors of a 2008 study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, Children's Hospital, on pediatric palliative practices...
...bottom line: after one year, the economic record is mixed. On the other hand, the political outlook may be more significant ... A pessimistic view is that politics will take on a [new] level of viciousness ... An optimistic view is that a sudden lurch towards constructive bipartisan politics combined with American resilience, ingenuity and entrepreneurship will pull...