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...more: the comforting, all-accepted platitude. You don't hear the whens, hows or ifs of economic recovery anymore: the unspoken question these days is whether some seismic collapse is on the near horizon. Lifetime employment, a pillar of the Japanese miracle, has been supplanted by the specter of lifetime underemployment for today's twentysomethings and brutally early retirement for the salarymen who rose out of that rubble. A lot of Japanese are shaking their heads and muttering, "Times are bad, but ..." and the sentence goes unfinished. No one can find a consoling conclusion...
...trauma are buried in the ongoing onslaught of wasting and death, the continuous interweaving of care-taking, funerals, memorials, anniversaries, and more deaths,” Bronson states in the final room’s wall text. In this exhibition, Bronson creatively weaves though loss, identity and the specter of AIDS to present a work that successfully speaks in a quietly dramatic manner on the human condition. The work leaves a feeling not of sorrow, but of humble gratitude for the gifts of life, art and humanity...
...Failure would see the general ousted and replaced by a leadership more prone to Islamist adventurism. And while India's military superiority would almost always prevail, New Delhi's long-term interests in attracting growth and investment and realizing its potential in the global marketplace are imperiled by the specter of continued conflict with a hostile and nuclear-armed neighbor. Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes may have repeatedly warned that if Musharraf fails to rein in the Islamists, India will have to do the job itself - but military confrontation remains an unappealing option. Despite India's posture of readiness...
...Sept 11 "left marks on the economy that will not soon fade," and in an irrational-exuberance moment Greenspan reminded his audience that economic forecasting - and its kissin' cousin, investing - has been made even more difficult by the "major uncertainty that we all must deal with these days: The specter of further terrorist incidents on American soil. It simply is not possible to predict whether there will be any such incidents or to forecast their possible consequences for the economy...
...could find themselves fighting? The U.S. and Europe, says Hanson. He points ominously to "the specter of a pan-European state (that) seems to create unity among its members by collective antagonism and envy of the United States...