Word: snappingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...word this week is that the economy will be lying very still for at least a few more quarters. In an interview published Monday, super-economist Milton Friedman predicted a recession followed by a Fed-sown snap-back: "With the very unusual Federal Reserve policy of successive interest rates cuts...the key problem once the recession ends in 2002 will be how to control inflation," Friedman was quoted as telling Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera." And Manpower Inc. released a quarterly employment survey finding U.S. employers likely to keep hiring in the deep freeze through the fourth quarter...
...classroom near you. So- called abstinence-only-until-marriage education was born of a little-noticed provision of the 1996 GOP welfare-reform legislation that set aside $50 million over five years for states that exhort kids to save sex until marriage. To snap up the funds, schools and community groups must agree to teach of the "harmful psychological and physical effects" of intercourse and only mention contraception in the context of its shortcomings...
...mood will falter a little as you drive onto campus. "Let's go in and find your dorm assignment first," you'll suggest. "I know it!" she'll snap back. She's under great stress, so don't let this get to you. She wants to appear as if she has everything under control, even though she is actually feeling completely lost...
...center-left government of Giuliano Amato then passed a decree freezing EDF's voting rights in Montedison at 2%. The reasoning: EDF is a protected monopolist in France. So it's not cricket for it to generate an easy $30 billion in annual sales and then turn around and snap up companies that actually have to compete. This is where Fiat stepped in. It has forged an alliance with EDF, financier Romain Zaleski and several banks. The consortium, called Italenergia, now controls 52% of the voting shares of Montedison. Initially, the new Berlusconi government, which owes Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli...
...Ybor City, of course, it?s not just hysterical drug dealers who are caught on camera, it?s Joe Shmo and his lovely wife and kids out for a stroll in the evening. And if the surveillance cameras snap a few shots, and none of the Shmo family faces sets off the photo database, it seems reasonable to wonder what good the cameras could possibly be doing - and to feel a vicarious sense of outrage on behalf of the entire Shmo family. But let?s imagine a different scenario: Say little Suzy Shmo is actually Jane Doe - whose frantic parents...