Word: sentimentals
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...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...
...Historically, it's still impossible to call 4.3 percent unemployment a recessionary number, but the trend watch - and what another bad number for April could mean for consumer sentiment - is now officially on. In a TIME.com Q&A, TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl takes a look at the report and its implication...
...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...
...being too forgiving over the incident. Given the way China's state-controlled media have portrayed the spy-plane incident - as an invasion of Chinese air space in which a Chinese plane was brought down by an aggressive maneuver by a U.S. aircraft - Beijing has stirred up similar public sentiment, which may have limited the leadership's space to seek a quick resolution...