Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavyhanded as to cause a far steeper slide than anyone expected? If so, many economists were fearful that Washington might react in a panicky rush to begin spending all over again, sending inflation surging to new and even more frightening heights. Observed one Zurich banker last week in a rueful sentiment that was almost universally shared among business leaders and economists everywhere: "I am afraid that at the first sign of a sharp recession, there will be a change in course...
Annie Hall (1977). Woody Allen's rueful, touching answer to Freud's immortal question about what women want...