Word: sentimentals
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Economists are quick to point out that a weak dollar doesn't necessarily mean a strong yen. The exchange rate of the yen to other currencies - such as the euro - still shows depreciation. But the dollar-yen pair heavily weights consumer sentiment and the stock market, says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities, and the rate right now has an overall negative affect...
...against monarchism. The Latin motto is lifted from the English rebel Algernon Sydney, a vehement opponent of the Restoration who was executed for conspiring to kill Charles II. It refers not to a conquest of native peoples but to an ethos of colonial liberation that had become the archetypal sentiment of Massachusetts patriots. The image of the sword refers to the first half of Sydney’s injunction: “manus haec, inimica Tyrannis,” or, “this hand, opposed to tyrants...
...environment. After ruling for so many decades, most of the time through authoritarian regimes, the KMT was corrupt, imperial and slow to adapt to the rising spirit of Taiwanese identity. Since its landmark 2000 electoral loss, however, the KMT has learned to be more democratic and open to public sentiment, and it found a new message, oddly enough, in its historical ties to China. As Lin Chong-pin, president of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies, puts it, the KMT "had no stage in Taiwan but found a stage in China." In 2005, then KMT chairman Lien Chan...
...sticking, a tactic that involves promoting an extreme position and discrediting counterarguments and opposing points of view. This may seem counter-intuitive: how can an argument be sustained if it takes an unrealistic stance? Yet it is this very extreme position that enables its survival and growth of public sentiment in support of it. Take the huge outcry about Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” and their “imminent threat” to the US and global peace. Months before the Iraqi invasion, American media went berserk over Saddam Hussein’s supposed...
Nevertheless, there is an underlying sentiment in these lamentations—however awfully distorted and misdirected—with which one can sympathize, something completely absent amongst the counter-complainers, who are no less obnoxious. Where were they–given their claims of moral superiority and wisdom—when Harvard lost over 350 million dollars in a hedge fund last year? Or when the administration breached its contract with its workers? Of course, they were too jaded to care. For these people, it seems that it’s the feeling of superiority over their classmates that matters...