Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Americans have to do all the heavy lifting? That's the refrain of every U.S. policymaker, wondering why the rest of the world seems to be waiting for the U.S. economy to pull it out of a downturn. And the sentiment is shared by American corporations, which would just love to find a growing international market for their products. But Western Europe continues to disappoint, and Japan's recession seems endless. What's an exporter...
...been slumping since 1997--with no end in sight--people just don't feel rich. While I was visiting there last month, the unemployment rate rose to 7%, the highest since 1981. In many years of trips to Hong Kong, I can't remember a time when the economic sentiment of those I talked with was quite so gloomy. Farther afield, there continues to be real doubt as to whether India and China can generate the growth needed to find jobs for their ever expanding populations...
...promised myself that I would never produce such a piece, needless to say. True, these may be the final words that I write at Harvard (give or take an exam booklet), but I refuse to succumb to sentiment. There will be no leisurely strolls down memory lane, no wistful reminiscing about Our Vanished Youth, and certainly no tedious shout-outs to roommates, friends and sundry others. This will doubtless come as disappointing surprise to the merry band in Quincy 616 and 613 (sorry, Alex and Tuttle and Praveen and Brian and Andy and Josh and Allen) and perhaps to others...
...finally, will I descend into sentiment and list the things I’ll be sorry to leave behind—the madness and hubbub, the predictably awful yet somehow comforting social scene, my peculiar, always fascinating classmates...and above all, perhaps, the beauty of the place, and the way the red-brick grandeur along the river glows, faintly, in the slanting, failing light of a late-spring evening...
...network have on hand to soothe our psyches next year? Entertainment president Jeff Zucker unveiled three sitcoms and two dramas for fall. Two sitcoms - in what promises to be another networks-wide trend next fall, the comedies will unfortunately also try to ride a wave of post-9/11 sentiment - were family-oriented. By "family-oriented," we mean, of course, plenty of jokes about sex and crotch injuries. On "The In-Laws," which is basically "Meet the Parents" with a married couple, two young marrieds move in with the wife's crotchety dad (Dennis Farina) who laments having to listen...