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...wait! There's trouble in paradise. You can hear it on most summer mornings and evenings, and sometimes all day long, in the distance or as close as your next-door neighbor's: the whine and roar of power lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chain saws and other unbelievably grating gizmos, grinding away to keep that cherished patch of lawn tidy and green...
Even in the best of circumstances, the lift-off will not be pretty. Growth will stutter more than roar. And unemployment rates, which will reach an estimated 11.7% this year in the E.U. and 2.8% in Japan, will decline only after the economic recovery has been better established. Herewith, tidings from the various fronts...
...paper tiger," Reeves said in an interview after the election. "It wants to roar like a big lion, but it is not. Certainly [it is] not a representative...
...When the prize was announced," Joyce Anderson continues, "there was immediately a congregation in the auditorium of Bell Laboratories, where he was working. He came home grinning and saying, "You can get addicted to the roar of the crowd...
Proponents argued that few creatures would swim close enough to be deafened by the speakers, which will be anchored 3,000 ft. deep. Moreover, supporters said, the noise would be no louder than other sounds filling the sea, from the thunder of cracking polar ice to the roar of supertankers...