Word: shock
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...While the shooting on Nov. 5 sent a shock wave throughout the tight-knit Killeen community, Beato, whose husband is an Army captain, said she was not surprised when Munley's name surfaced as the police officer who ended the shooting. "It was just like her - she carries herself with confidence," Beato said...
Theirs was a small town still reeling from the shock of a murder. Richter, the county attorney, was up for election the following year. The authorities' first suspect - a white man married to the daughter of the fire chief - failed a lie-detector test and was identified by more than one witness; his case was inexplicably dropped. Instead, Hrvol and Richter targeted two black teenagers whose only connection to the murder came from the testimony of a teenage boy who was arrested for stealing a car. The boy gave three alternate versions of the murder, admitted to lying on multiple...
Cell phones? Pizza? "Kentucky" fried chicken? They even have a busy bowling alley or two, and we benefited from rolling BBC News in our hotel rooms. This was not the Pyongyang we'd come to expect. And yet such developments should not come as a shock, argued Cockerell over a microbrewed ale (70 cents) in Pyongyang's downtown Paradise Bar. "Foreign reporting on the D.P.R.K. is macro in scale - it's always, 'But aren't they testing nuclear weapons up there?' Subtle changes in the lives of Koreans don't fit the reporting paradigm; those changes are considered too trivial...
China's example shows how hard it will be to switch to a more comprehensive measure. But it's also another lesson on how misleading the current figure can be. The numbers that caused so much shock were a better reflection of the country's long-range economic health. It might take time before we find a replacement for GDP. Until then, there's little point in marking our progress against something that's so clearly wrong...
...right here? Well, first, the Republican argument that the stimulus is a bust because jobs have been lost fails a basic logic test. After last fall's global financial shock, the job market was going to be thrown for a loss no matter what. The issue is whether the number of job losses is greater or lesser than it would have been in the absence of the stimulus. "You can't answer these questions without a compared-to-what," says Jared Bernstein, economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, who is overseeing the stimulus. "We can have good arguments about...