Word: safes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blaring doomsday over their car radios, more than 2 million residents did, clogging the highways and creating their own disaster bulletins ? the traffic kind. Cars packed with families, pets and suitcases crept west at hours per mile, and when Floyd cruised on by, folks were inclined to feel that safe had been exactly the same as sorry. "There was no need to go," Georgia convenience-store owner Subhash Patel told the USA Today after his four-and-a-half-hour, 39-mile trip cost him two days of business. "We got scared unnecessarily by the media, by all the attention...
Despite the rape, most students at BU have said that they feel relatively safe in their dorms...
...student told the Globe said that she and her roommate have been lax about keeping their door locked at night. "We usually feel pretty safe and leave the door unlocked," she said, adding that on Sunday night the dorm held a meeting about the assault...
...that accompanies the modern economy. One of the unpleasant, but unavoidable, side effects of the economy is unemployment, and it is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. (For one thing, if unemployment were to fall below 4 percent tomorrow, the Federal Reserve would quickly jack up interest rates until a safe number of people were unemployed.) To send those who are counted among that four percent to private charities is to treat them as beggars rather than citizens. We may not need a complete cradle-to-grave welfare state, but we do need social programs to be motivated by something other...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor Data"This is one of the most threatening hurricanes ever to menace the U.S., and it?s headed for the Southeast and Northeast, where a lot of economic activity is," says Baumohl. "People?s minds are going to be on being safe and protecting their property - not going to the mall." Look for retail sales to dampen considerably for a week or so - and therefore for the month - as folks covering their heads sit on their wallets. Which ought to put the Fed?s mind at ease when September?s numbers come out, just in time...