Word: sentimentals
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...These may be the key numbers. All of them - retail sales, wholesale prices and especially consumer sentiment and unemployment - seem to portray an economy that is still very weak, with inflation actually declining. First-time unemployment claims hit 392,000, the highest level in five years. Generally, 425,000 to 450,000 is a level that economists generally associate with a recession. And it seems we're headed in that direction...
Carlos J. Ledezma, a first-year at Harvard Medical School and an HSF scholar, echoed Tucker's sentiment...
...education plan that the Senate is negotiating. This is to say, politics at work, the point and purpose of American democracy. The Senate plan of annual school testing and the eventual overhaul of consistently failing schools into charter schools is a political proposal which outwardly plays on the popular sentiment of “getting tough on schools,” yet really does no such thing...
...demands multicultural savvy--people who have worked for companies based in different countries, even if they themselves have never left Brazil. Says Puritz: "If people don't have that intellectual dexterity of understanding how other cultures work, they won't succeed in this business." That's a sentiment chanted over and over again by other executives at international firms. "You need to borrow the know-how of local culture and local law," says Cendant's Pfeffer. "It's important that you not project any arrogance...
...Next month's number for April - which will come out a week or so before the Fed meeting - will be critical. What the Fed is worried most about is consumer sentiment, and if the unemployment number, low as it may be historically, becomes a consistent upward trend, that has the potential to finally convince consumers that things are getting worse and we're slipping into a recession...