Word: recession
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...across town, he blows a half-dozen swarthy gents in the general direction of Smithereens. He catches a couple men in the back. Others' brains splatter the walls in homage to Jackson Pollock's red period. After planting evidence on one of the deceased, Ludlow finds a cramped wall recess, with two girls trussed up and cowering inside. They stare up at him trembling, wondering what's he got in mind. "It's OK," he whispers...
Every day after school, I would go over to my friend Jenny’s house. The only thing we had in common was the lack of an Italian ancestor. My athletically-challenged self was perfectly happy not hanging from the monkey bars or playing dodgeball at recess. I helped her with her math homework and she taught me how to play box ball. Every afternoon, after finishing homework (that I had mostly done on the bus anyway), watching “Dirty Dancing” or “Dave” for the 100th time, we would venture...
...Abdel-Medhi's veto has a whiff of desperate self-preservation, given how much his party stands to lose when the law passes. Now the law is back to the Iraqi parliament to be revised. It will need a two-thirds majority to pass when lawmakers return from their recess on March 18. While the debate may be contentious and the law's language may be altered, U.S. officials believe there will be enough votes to get the legislation through...
...describe as reconstituted space pizza, in a personal-sized tin trays. But it was pizza. And I was an easily pleased second grader, who didn’t think past the fact that a boy would soon try to knock me off the monkey bars onto spiky tanbark during recess...
...Democrats say they'll be working on the issue during next week's recess. But the battle has been so starkly refined into one over immunity that it's hard to see how either side can back down. That means the election season will feature debates about whether its okay to break the law in order to wage war on terrorism. Are Democrats sure that's a fight they want to have? "There certainly is polling" supporting the party's position, says the senior Senate Democratic aide. "But that's not what people rely on; they rely on their guts...