Word: shedding
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...exports through Estonia's ports. Combine all that bad news and it's little wonder that Estonia's unemployment rate, just 4.7% in 2007, is predicted to hit 9% next year. "Everyone is worried about what will happen," says Aivar Hundimagi, deputy editor of a business paper that has shed nearly 20% of its staff since last year. Black banners for a lecture series recently appeared in Tallinn asking: IS THERE LIFE AFTER CAPITALISM...
...that the champagne has been popped and tears have been shed, the salient question for both clubs is how to remain relevant in light of the presidential campaign’s denouement and the greater political apathy that will certainly follow on campus...
...found that people who changed their views on Obama were twice as likely to say they had grown more favorable, not less; those who now saw McCain differently were three times as likely to say their view had worsened than had improved. And that was after the markets had shed a couple of trillion dollars. By mid-October, only 1 in 3 voters thought McCain would bring the country a real change in direction. He never got close again...
...Though the Democratic presidential candidate, who has often warned his supporters against overconfidence, may not be creating a staff directory just yet, his choice of close advisors during his campaign—a posse of eminent scholars and former policymakers, many from the Clinton administration—could shed light on the makeup of an Obama administration...
...going to depressurize and begin to try and make up to my family all the time that they have lost here. And you know what else I'm going to do? I'm probably going to shed a few tears for all the people that I have spent the last two years with day-in and day-out, 24-hours-a-day, who I won't be with in the future. Because one of the really rewarding parts of this has been the collegiality and the friendships. I mean, we're like a family and I keep thinking about...