Word: perched
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...That's where the similarity ends. The index is not likely to return to its previous lofty perch anytime soon. Following a miserable performance in August - Chinese stocks fell nearly 22% last month - Shanghai's 81% Great Leap Forward from January to July has now been pared to 42% as of Aug. 31. That's still a hefty advance, but it's looking like the long march backward will continue for some time. (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...
...Wall Street. The student of anthropology, who would later go on to get her Ph.D., was fascinated by how even in the midst of an economic boom, corporate downsizings were rampant - and how each time a company announced a major layoff, its stock rallied. What she found from her perch at Bankers Trust - and later in interviews with people at firms such as Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Salomon Brothers, Kidder Peabody and Lazard - was that it wasn't just an ideological commitment to boosting shareholder value that drove decisions to merge, break up and restructure...
...pent-up demand in the teen sector. Yes, teens aren't spending because of the recession, but that's also because retailers have failed to create a hot new trend. Denim has been the default teen look for the past few years, and nothing has knocked it off its perch. "Once the dominant new fashion trend emerges, teens will rush back out to the stores," says Klinefelter. "The resurgences will require some economic relief, but the segment will make a comeback...
...Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, both once tipped as future Labour leaders, are now heading to the backbenches, the favored perch from which to foment rebellion. Two more ministers have also tendered their resignations. "The government is collapsing before our eyes," said David Cameron, the Conservative leader, renewing his call for an early election. (Read "David Cameron: U.K.'s Next Leader...
What we must do is to insist, stubbornly and in spite of the blinkered view from our perch, that on the scales of dignity all labor weighs equal. In doing so, we perform an act of unification by conjoining all citizens, from the philosopher to the policeman to the plumber, into the commonality of humanity’s unfolding history, a history precipitated out of the sum of thousands of craft activities. We assert that Homo sapiens—the wise human—and Homo faber—the making human—are the same item...