Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...myself the willing target of a nation's hostility, a country full of purported fans of college basketball who entertain themselves by disparaging my team, who cringe at the sight of Duke blue. And it's not just University of North Carolina fans, for whom, at least, anti-Duke sentiment is a hallowed tradition. Instead, it's a whole lot of people who, for reasons that continue to escape me, find everything about Duke basketball to be deeply distasteful. And for a team that's never done anything but play solid, passionate, occasionally spectacular basketball, that seems an unfair return...
...Americans are as concerned about the Bush administration's position as the Europeans are. And trying to pile on the pressure won't work either, because the administration clearly doesn't give a toss what the Europeans think. There's also a fear that this wave of anti-American sentiment may camouflage the fact that the E.U. countries themselves are behind on their efforts to reach their own emission-reduction targets, and that they still have to ratify the treaty...
...Consumer sentiment is tied first and foremost to their jobs and job security. I think the main influence on this report was the unemployment numbers for February, which came out in the first part of March. With unemployment at 4.2 percent, I think people realize that whatever happens in the markets, the most important factor in their lives is going to be whether they're working or not, and the fact that unemployment is still holding - after eight months of the economy sliding - has to be encouraging...
...days when the P.L.O. ran an unruly state-within-a-state have left many Lebanese with bitter memories. Over the last year, debates in parliament and editorials in Beirut dailies have echoed the rising sentiment that Lebanon will find it difficult to bury its past and build a democratic future as long as Palestinian refugees remain in the country. "We refuse any implantation," Information Minister Ghazi Aridi declared in December. "This is a basic Lebanese national issue on which we cannot make any compromise...
...think so. "The broad economy is not as bad as the technology economy. More people are starting to wake up to the fact that this is a technology problem," says Thomas McManus, portfolio strategist at Banc of America Securities in New York City. Certainly there are hopeful signs. Consumer-sentiment figures released by the University of Michigan Friday suggest that the pessimism may be leveling off. Car and home sales have held up reasonably well, drawing down inventories, a critical issue. Consumers have been refinancing their homes at the fastest clip in several years. Energy prices have stabilized. Despite...