Word: rust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reason, among the middle-class voters who have lost almost everything—jobs, savings, homes—and who are loathe to gamble on a candidate whose entire campaign is based on change, when change is destroying them.Hillary understood Levittown. She pandered to it with duck-shooting faux Rust Belt authenticity, but also with tangible proposals for health care, energy, and job creation. And if she offended us when she argued that “Obama will have trouble appealing to white voters,” she was, unfortunately, exactly right. It has become increasingly clear that John McCain...
...childish, etc. Part of the delight of books or movies, music and painting is on first encountering something terrific to our sensibilities, the wow returns. I think people like my books because they work towards reawakening that sense of unbridled wonder we once felt but have allowed to rust over in a corner of our adult minds. THC: What do you think is the difference between your reception in the United States and your reception elsewhere? Do you find that there is a strikingly different reception of your novels in different countries?JC: Yes, the reading demographic in different countries...
...refusing to state whether he would have voted for Congress' $700 billion bailout bill. (Kryzan says she would have voted yes; Lee says the bill was "necessary," but an "embarrassment" because it was loaded with so many pork barrel projects.) Upstate New York and the rest of the Rust Belt has been hit particularly hard by the economic downturn, with the region still reeling from the loss of manufacturing jobs over the past several decades. It is fertile ground for anti-corporate sentiment, and Kryzan is tapping it to attack Lee, who is running on his business background; he worked...
...general, Colorado and its high-tech, adventure-travel economic base are somewhat insulated from the kinds of industrial shifts that have walloped Rust Belt states. But the exodus of wealth from Arapahoe has made it more vulnerable to economic downturn. In 2006 the county's foreclosure rate was five times the national average, and it's still one of the highest in the state. "When a flattening economy like we're experiencing now comes along," says Ritter, "they're going to be hit harder...
Opening its football season nearly three weeks after most schools, it was clear from the get-go that Harvard was still working off the rust. On a night filled with blunder after blunder, the Crimson was lucky to pull out the narrow victory. “We were very fortunate,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Obviously, we made too many mistakes against a good team, and the saving grace was that we had great character and found a way to win.” The Crimson fell behind late in the first frame...