Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...associated with a catastrophe that was cast in racially polarizing terms. But his silence is a missed opportunity. There is no better platform than New Orleans to execute many of the social-mobility policies Obama has vigorously promoted in other places like rural Pennsylvania, Iowa and Montana. Simply expressing sentiment over New Orleans isn't enough. We have had enough of platitudes. Any Obama statement must reflect a plan for resurrecting New Orleans...
...that may have stoked jealousy and resentment. How was Manny to know that Agee, however lauded in his time (he died at 51 in 1955), would in the long run be the white elephant to Manny's termite? No, let's be fairer: Charlie Chaplin, equal parts genius and sentiment, to Manny's Buster Keaton, the deadpan acrobat and scene constructor, who had to wait ages for his star to eclipse Chaplin's in critics' eyes...
...moment, the best bellwether of Western sentiment remains the stock market. Its recent nosedive reflects not just political turmoil, but also signs of an economy under stress. While GDP is expected to rise about 7.5% this year, Neil Shearing, an economist at Capital Economics in London, warns that unless Russian authorities get a grip on this heady growth and "take some of the steam out of the economy, we could have a fairly nasty correction over the medium term." Meanwhile, a report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in July warned that Moscow must do much more...
...course, long-time investors in Russia are used to living with acute risk. "The international sentiment toward Russia has never really been as good as it has been toward China and India and Brazil. There's always been this kind of residual fear over Russia," says Roland Nash, head of research at Renaissance Capital, a Moscow-based investment bank. Still, he adds, "Eventually what will drive people back into the market is the fact that there are cheap assets here." BMW, Enel, L'Oréal and all the other foreign companies continuing to crowd into Russia wouldn't disagree...
...security strategist argue for a major, muscular effort to beat the Taliban back and force their allies to scramble for cover. In France at least, there is likely to be popular support for political leaders to do just that. As the nation laid its fallen forces to rest, public sentiment was growing that the only way to give their deaths meaning was through victory...