Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dread scenario goes something like this: the emerging Asian economies--Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines--either slow sharply or sink into recession, and the ills spread throughout the rest of Asia, including Japan, which ships nearly half its exports to those countries. Japan's already sluggish economy buckles further, and because it is America's third largest trading partner, its difficulties are felt in the U.S., and ultimately throughout the world...
...Mollusk continues to build mini-stories around a whale and eel. Resembling The Beatles' "Octopus' Garden" a little too closely, "Polka Dot Tail" couples the eternal question "Have you ever seen a whale/With a polka dot tail" with "Have you ever tried to shrink/Like an ice cube in the sink." Apparently these are pertinent questions to the waterlogged minds of Ween's 11 band members. Exploring nothing musically or lyrically novel, "The Golden Eel" trudges through an unrevealing revelation: "Watching the eel/Help me find the way home...Daylight has come/I can not repeal/The words of the golden eel." The biggest...
...labor, anti-NAFTA Democrats that refuse to crack, a defiant group that could sink the measure ? and that, come 2000, could make the Republican Party look positively united by comparison...
...reverse, I saw two or three guys wearing 70's numbers in front of me, so those guys did a great job today," Patterson said. "We felt that we would have to really throw the kitchen sink at them in the first half, and we did, and we're fortunate that we made some big plays," Murphy said...
...Because of their tough defense], we felt we had to throw the kitchen sink at them in the first half," Murphy said...