Word: slights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still there is a growing suspicion in global financial circles that the dollar may be at its peak and poised for at least a slight decline. While the Federal Reserve is trying hard to slow the U.S. economy, growth is picking up in other parts of the world. Output is forecast to rise about 3% this year in "Euroland" (the 11 nations that use the euro as a trading currency). Japan is crawling out of recession, and though growth there is feeble, it has still been enough to hold the yen steady against the dollar. Europeans point out too that...
...widespread use. At the moment, only two states, New York and Illinois, insist on giving inmates on death row access to the new technology. Why the shift? Part of it may be the legacy of the country's lower crime rate--even though murder stats have registered a slight uptick in a few major cities (see box). The flurry of sentences overturned on the basis of DNA evidence is also driving public opinion. Such genetic fingerprints have led to the freeing of 72 inmates, including eight convicted of capital crimes. Other factors include racial and economic disparities in sentencing...
...arrives at the table smiling and carrying a tray of water and tea. O'Connor is small and slight in person but visually arresting. As is often her custom, she has shaved the jet-black hair on her scalp down to about as much stubble as you'd find on George Clooney's cheeks if he went razorless for a long weekend. Her nearly bare head, combined with her wide, bright eyes, gives her a beautiful, birdlike appearance, like something newly hatched. She's wearing brown boots, a blue coat that drapes below her knees, black sunglasses perched...
...unchanged in May, which was good news for those watching Chairman Greenspan's interest-rate trigger finger; on the other hand, the possibly more reliable "core" rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, edged up 0.2 percent. Complicating matters: Prognosticators were agreeably surprised by the first number and slightly disappointed by the second, leaving Wall Street with a slight urge to buy but not a reason to believe...
...that I've afforded you a slight pang of mortality, do you feel any different as a person? More serene? Have you reordered your priorities? Are you more focused or centered...