Word: scares
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...that you could really tell in the United States. Sure, there was a bit of a credit-market scare in the latter half of 1998. But on balance, the impact on the U.S. economy was positive - as the emerging market troubles sent commodity prices down and capital flowed to the relative safety of Wall Street. Real GDP grew 4.2% that year...
...nation of immigrants; they built it and thrived in it. I would say that because Barack Obama exemplifies this melting pot, he is more American than many of us. But this brand of attack is not new, as the article implies. I think of the 1920s and the red scare and the extreme nationalism that led to immigrant quotas. Don't we all look back at that time and shudder at how we treated those who came from another place? Our incredible ingenuity, our innovation, our ideas, our universities - all these are the product of our ability to attract...
...closing days of a campaign, every day is Halloween, because the hobgoblins are all real and they genuinely are trying to scare...
...course, if real issues do arise this year, both sides have created huge armies of lawyers ready to pounce on any dubious county board of elections with cuff links flashing. That should be enough to scare away even the nastiest of election-year demons...
...nation of immigrants; they built it and thrived in it. I would say that because Barack Obama exemplifies this melting pot, he is more American than many of us. But this brand of attack is not new, as the article implies. I think of the 1920s and the red scare and the extreme nationalism that led to immigrant quotas. Don't we all look back at that time and shudder at how we treated those who came from another place? Our incredible ingenuity, our innovation, our ideas, our universities--all these are the product of our ability to attract...