Word: shallower
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...this recovery comes with some unusual baggage: the same forces that made the recession short and shallow are likely to dampen the recovery. Housing never cracked; now it won't boom. Consumers never stopped spending; now they're in debt and can't pick up the pace. President Bush's tax rebate, paid out during the worst of the recession, was "insanely well timed," says Maureen Allyn, chief economist at Zurich Scudder. Any comparable success with whatever stimulus package Congress might pass is unlikely. On the factory front, new inventory controls have given managers earlier warning of waning demand than...
...staff celebrates this recent reduction of Core requirements for one reason: There are now only seven more required Core classes to eliminate. The core offers few courses of substance, they argue, and is an inappropriate waste of academic time. Yet their attitude dangerously accepts a shallow expectation of the reduction—greater flexibility—in place of the powerfully enlightening benefits of the Core...
...Irish media any less sensitive when the Abbey presented the piece. "Haughey fury at Abbey play" blazed the front page of the Sunday Independent, while daytime TV and radio was full of Hinterland talk. Press comments - the Sunday Times (not a reviewer) called Hinterland "feeble, puerile, trite, dissociated, shallow, exploitative and gratuitously offensive" - might also make the Irish Arts Council reluctant to extend more funding to the Abbey, Ireland's national theater...
...world, with the U.S. fighting an ongoing war on terrorism, the exhaustive brand of broadcast journalism practiced by “Nightline” is even more relevant. And America’s current climate seems less appropriate than ever for standard network news, which is often notoriously shallow and superficial...
...opinion. There is some discussion of what exactly constitutes good journalism—including an interesting distinction between journalism that is “objective,” which is impossible, and“fair”—but the authors rely too much on anecdotes and shallow argumentation...