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...
...Pakistan. Last week, according to tribal elders, some 40 U.S. commandos set up base in the Pakistani town of Miramshah, following reports that bin Laden might be holed up nearby in either north Waziristan or the Tirah valley. Officially, Pakistan's government, sensitive to popular anti-American sentiment, denies that U.S. special forces crossed into its tribal borderlands. Whether or not U.S. troops are on the ground, Washington must depend, at least in part, on Pakistani intelligence to flush out remaining fugitives. The working deal is this: the American hunters provide electronic surveillance and whopping rewards for information...
...University of Pennsylvania addressed the tradition of debutante balls in their study entitled “Social Forces.” They got to the heart of the matter quickly, writing, “[Parents] present the product of their careful rearing to their approved friends with the unspoken sentiment: ‘This is my daughter, now prepared to enter into, and take her part in, our own social set. She is up for your inspection, and may she be acceptable...
...classic New Yorker, shares the same sentiment as Hagan. “The best part of it isn’t the fact that I can sit here and say I’m a debutante,” Ma says. “It doesn’t mean anything—I’m not going to put that on a résumé. It was having that moment with all my best friends, from here and from home,” she says. “How many times in your life...