Word: semi
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...other words, if Alan Greenspan was ever planning to unspool some additional optimism on the state of the economy in his return to the Hill after last week's semi-sanguine appearance before the House Financial Services Committee last Wednesday, he'd have known by Tuesday's opening bell that he'd have been shouting into a pretty stiff wind...
Back when Alan Greenspan was Lord of the Boom, parsing his semi-annual testimony on matters economic in front of the House and Senate was usually a pointless exercise. The financial world was like a stockbroker on a cocaine jag - euphoric and volatile and throwing cash around like, well, a stockbroker on a cocaine jag. Greenspan saved his lever-pulling for Fed meetings and put the lawmakers to sleep with boilerplate. The only real payoff to watching was to see how barely Lord Alan disguised his bemusement at the questions posed after his prepared remarks...
...Using the first part of his semi-annual testimony before the House Financial Services Committee as a sort of between-the-meetings preview of the FOMC's August 21 get-together, the Fed chairman did very cautiously indicate that the deterioration of the U.S. economy might be starting to slow down - and might even start to reverse itself by early next year. But he as much as shouted that last meeting's deceleration of the rate-cut regime to 25 basis points (instead of the usual 50) was almost certainly temporary...
...spilling chemicals on myself when he walked by, or would help me overcome my stubborn streak and finally apologize to a once-close friend. And sometimes the cards worked their magic exactly as I'd hoped - one particularly successful Valentine's Day card paved the way to my first semi-serious relationship. (In ninth-grade terms, of course, that phrase means that we "dated" for more than two weeks during which time may have actually sat in the same room with each other for up to an hour...
...gang war. Since the arrival of the Palestinian Authority seven years ago, the society of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been cracking under the dual strains of Arafat's corrupt rule and continued occupation by Israel. The intifadeh took those fissures and blew them apart. This semi-anarchy has alarming consequences. Take a trip along the fault lines of Palestinian society and imagine what it is like to live astride them...