Word: pent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incarceration, provide few educational or work opportunities. Prisons do better. Most offer some courses, though tight budgets have forced cutbacks in recent years; 2 out of 3 prison inmates have work assignments. Even so, a quarter of all prisoners have neither jobs nor classes to engage their time and pent-up energies...
...Miller (who, with Luc Beraud, adapted Nina Berberova's novel) and from the actors to the receptive viewer. Safonova is a blond vision of grace under all kinds of pressure. But the fresh revelation is Romane Bohringer, daughter of co-star Richard Bohringer. A solemn beguiler, she perfectly embodies pent-up passivity as it longs for the golden chains of an enslaving passion...
That's because the recovery remains in the throes of two distinct economic cycles, the TIME panel agreed. On the one hand, the U.S. has clearly rebounded from the 1990 slump as low interest rates and the release of pent-up consumer demand have set off a run on such big-ticket items as houses and cars. On the other hand, the payroll slashing that dates back to the 1980s remains in full force as U.S. corporations strive to compete in world markets. Even the boom in business investment, which has boosted economic growth, has gone largely for computers...
Will consumers continue to spend? Economic forecasting involves less science and more guessing than many practitioners like to admit; predicting consumer behavior is especially chancy. But it is clear that the potential exists, in the form of pent-up buying power that fear of the future kept people from unleashing. If they keep spending now, that will raise the possibility of a beneficial circle: more sales, more production, more hiring, more income, still more sales. The circle may not spin fast enough to produce a boom -- but who wants one anyway? Moderate, steady growth is better...
Celebrating the University of Wisconsin's first football victory over the University of Michigan in 12 years, 12,000 spectators out of a sellout 77,000 tried to pour onto the field and trampled 75 people, injuring seven critically. Said Wisconsin's security chief: "It was pent-up emotion, and it got out of control...