Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great bull market of the 1990s has pumped $9 trillion into investment portfolios and encouraged Americans to spend some of their gains--a trend that has helped sustain prosperity. But the "wealth effect"--the term economists use for the urge to splurge when we feel rich but to pull back when we feel poorer--could pound the economy if we see more days like last Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 299 points. It was the Dow's third-largest single-day fall, though in percentage terms it was not among the 100 biggest drops. "People feel they...
...writers seem to spend a lot of time discussing universal themes, but sometimes their voices come through so much that it becomes impossible to identify with them; their experience seems too personal, too individual, to make sense to the reader. Others, however, manage to pull the reader quickly into their lives and by the end it is impossible to escape the feeling that some of these writers are close friends one has known for years. The universality of themes is fascinating, especially as it is often split among gender lines. Writing about life defining experiences, the women essayists tend...
That mea culpa would take some of the drama and steam out of the Aug. 17 appearance. It would affect public opinion, which would affect congressional opinion, which would affect the chances for impeachment and possibly Starr's own calculations. If any President has the communication skills to pull off this high-wire act, Clinton does. But that assumes that he and his wife could muster the will to set aside their loathing of Ken Starr long enough to ask for his mercy...
Chirac said the time had come to discuss this option seriously. The others agreed but thought it would be extremely difficult to pull off. Clinton wanted the French to spearhead the raid, but Chirac was not keen on taking on that "high-risk" role alone for fear of possible reprisals against his troops in the sector. Clinton and Blair were reluctant because of the potential casualties. Chirac pointed out another problem: they could not launch such an operation without informing the Russians, for diplomatic reasons, or the Italians, whose peacekeeping troops were present in the French-controlled zone immediately around...
...harassment case against him. The chairman of the board, William Gibson, had been accused by other board members of running up his N.A.A.C.P. expense account by thousands of dollars. Membership was dropping. There was a deficit of nearly $4 million. The only message was chaos. Better, I argued, to pull the plug on the N-Double-A and replace it with a new organization...