Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will the world economy and particularly the financial sector perform in 1999? A five-member TIME Board of Economists gathered earlier this month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to give predictions. Their views were a finely balanced mix of relief, short-term optimism and long-term anxiety...
...There is relief because the global meltdown that many feared a year ago has not materialized. "We got very close to the edge of a financial crisis we haven't seen since the 1930s, which had the potential of pulling into that vortex the financial institutions and markets of the core economies," says Kenneth Courtis of Deutsche Bank Group in Tokyo. "The hole was so big, you couldn't see the bottom." But the ho-hum reaction of world markets to Brazil's currency collapse shows, says Courtis, "that the emerging-markets crisis at least in this virulent first phase...
...year, what made us flinch or groan, change the channel, fling the magazine across the room. Generations of scholars yet unborn will read shelves of books yet unwritten trying to figure out what went wrong in America in 1998 and why. So maybe it's the lazy luxury of relief, now that it's over, to look at what might have gone right and toast the new era with a glass half full...
...relief, then that NARAS has responded to the impeccable taste of teenage girls by bestowing the Grammy nomination on the Backstreet Boys. The award for Best New Artist traditionally portends greatness for its recipient and recognizes the musical achievement of hard-bodied young stars. But there are some naysayers, some files in the hair gel, who claim that the Boys are hardly qualified to be given an award that has gone to the likes of Tracy Chapman (1988) and Bruce Hornsby (1986). To them, I say let's take a look at how the Boys stack up against their competitors...
...movie as a comedy falls short of its goal.While there are moments of comic relief, feelingsof disgust and revulsion overwhelm any possibleamusement. Additionally, a formulaic script leaveslittle for character development. Only Fern,(Whose desire to have friend is heartbreakingbecause her honest plights is ultimately taintedand controlled by Courtney), and Courtney herself,are characters which make you feel something otherthan neutral toward them...