Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heads into its May confab Tuesday, the economy's prospects for dodging a recession are actually looking pretty good. On Friday, encouraging reports for April on retail sales (up), consumer sentiment (up) and wholesale inflation (pretty tame) put a dent in the unanimous expectation that the Fed heads would chop another 50 basis points, or a half-point, off the short-term interest rate that is the Fed's raison d'etre. Theoretically, Fed cuts take 6-18 months to work their magic in the economy (though the stock market "wealth effect" has in recent years been credited with speeding...
...taxi driver who worked his way into owning a fleet of cars and a string of pachinko parlors from which he amassed a fortune. Perhaps mindful of the discrimination faced by Koreans, when the young Obara - then known by his Korean name Kim - was asked to pen a farewell sentiment in his junior-high class yearbook, he wrote: "Upbringing is more important than family name...
...John Adams, Class of 1755, a graduate of this great University, who declared that it is better “that many guilty persons should escape unpunished than one innocent should suffer.” I hope that 200 years later we still share that noble sentiment. But we need not pay that price. For in sparing the innocent, we also minimize the possibility that the guilty go free...
...some point, effusive sentiment must be checked by reality and fairness. The playoffs should be a reward for a job well done during the regular season, and even the most kind-hearted cannot make the case that the last place team should be in the playoffs...
...departure for a conservative Republican state. Before the vote, former Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush released a letter attacking it. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey flew to Phoenix and warned that it amounted to "the legalization of all drugs." But the politicians may have been out of touch with popular sentiment. Recalls political consultant Sam Vagenas, who steered the Arizona initiative: "When we asked focus groups if we were winning the war on drugs, people just laughed...