Word: sown
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Whether or not these professors are assigning moral blame to the U.S. for the terrorist acts, they are saying, essentially, that we are reaping what we have sown...
...seeds for a recovery, perhaps in early 2002, are being sown fast. Stock prices usually rise well in advance of any such turn. That's probably too much to hope for this week as the stock market reopens. Those industries clearly hurt by the attacks will get a tough ride--airlines, hotels, media, insurance and financial firms. General Electric and Ford on Friday warned of lower profits because of fallout from the terror attacks. Amid the early tumult, few investors will want to buy. That leaves sellers in charge of the market trend, at least for a little while...
...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...
...adoring readers, a house full of prizes and a life lived solely, though not alone, and utterly to her own measure. To know Eudora Welty was to experience the best of life on an exquisitely human scale and to be reminded again where the seeds of greatness are sown...
...recalibrated and transformed into language that was surprising, sometimes shocking, always sympathetic, frequently hilarious, and full of perception, wonder and delight. To know Eudora Welty was to experience the best of life on an exquisitely human scale, and to be reminded again where the seeds of greatness are sown...