Word: painful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...roguish rhetoric and short fuses - leavened for variety with the odd upmarket observation. "Beauty is a cruel mistress," Uri says of his painting, with a mixture of connoisseurship and threat. Some of the lines could almost be put to music, like "The streets are alive with the sound of pain...
...pain will soon come to Main Street - in Beijing and Brussels as much as in Boise. Economists are already outlining the downward spiral that they predict will follow. Banks will cut back on their lending to households and businesses. Mortgages and car loans will become harder to get. That in turn will stifle consumer spending and crimp investment in companies, leading to production cuts and job losses. Judging by previous crises, it can take about 18 months to two years for a financial squeeze to spread to the rest of the economy, which means that 2009 is shaping...
Style: Clearly more confident talking to voters in his cherished town-hall format than standing behind a podium. Authentically displayed feel-your-pain concern over the economy, in a smoother manner than usual. But while he held the audience's attention with his answers and theatrics, he distractingly and conspicuously scribbled notes when Obama had the floor. His errant reference to Obama as "that one" probably jarred some viewers. Bottom line: with his rival in the lead, the Republican nominee was forced into aggression and antagonism but often flirted with the desperate and negative...
What Americans are fast learning is what the market pros knew all along - the bailout bill may turn out to be a pill that dulls the pain, only to leave deeper global economic wounds festering. "We're in the midst of a panic," says James Angel, professor of finance at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. Angel, who teaches a course on financial crisis, says that even the injection of federal dollars may not convince banks to shed their fears. "If banks go from being too reckless to being too conservative, there may be general starvation for the economy...
...son’s life—only to have her arms cut off so she could no longer beg. As she told her character’s story, Smith bent over in her chair and raised her left hand to her face, letting her body tremble in pain. But, when a photograph of the real Henriette Mutigwarba appeared on a screen, it suddenly became clear that Anna Deveare Smith was an impersonator. The all-consuming pain that Mutigwarba must have felt was only imitated onstage; she was the only one who could truly experience her emotion. Smith thus revealed...