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Poor economic recovery - it just can't seem to stay on Wall Street's mind. First it was Enronitis. Then it was a lack of pent-up consumer demand. And now, just when it seemed economists and investors had decided that the road back to boom times might well be steep and swift, the markets have caught jihaditis...
...played J.J. as the handsome, expansive con man, flashing those famous ivories as he suckered the rubes with his clipped, booming voice. Instead, he wears thick glasses, with what looks like a false nose under them. He turns his athletic energy inward to present a man nearly imploding with pent tension. He intones that Odetsian odes in a whisper, so that everyone, not just on screen, would lean in closer, the more vulnerable to his bite when he struck...
...Seoul has also unleashed long pent-up consumer demand by easing limits on credit-card use, among other measures. Koreans were once avid savers, encouraged by government policies designed to funnel domestic capital to industry to bulk up manufacturing capacity. Today, citizens are shopping more and saving less?South Korea's savings rate measured against GDP has declined by 10 percentage points since 1987. In the rest of Asia, by contrast, domestic savings rates have remained at Scroogian levels...
...Matt stormed back, and pretty soon Marc was getting pissed off. When Matt finally finished his comeback, Marc, in a fit of pent-up anger, overturned both the table and the Nok Hockey board. Then he grabbed me, since I was the nearest human around, and proceeded to pummel me. He smashed my face into the wall, making my mouth bleed, until I was face down in a small pool of blood...
Indeed, the cancellation of the “Debauchery” dance has ushered in a somber tone on campus. Male students have taken to lifting cars to release their pent-up tension. Contrary to previous complaints, students are now flocking to Eliot House for their daily cold shower. The Lampoon is so distraught, they have been unable to laugh at even their own pathetic excuses for jokes. Academic performance has taken a nose-dive as well; not one Computer Science 121: “Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation” problem set made deadline this week...