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...factor that will spell the difference between slowdown and recession is sustained consumer confidence and spending. A decline could prompt businesses to cut back production even more, leading to more cuts in the work force and a further fall in consumer spending -- the vicious cycle that drives a recession. In surveys, confidence still looks solid, but beneath is an enduring anxiety about wage stagnation and job security. With any additional sign of a serious downturn, consumer confidence could collapse like a nervous smile...
...Haynes' approach is that he spills no secrets, makes no obvious judgments. Safe is its own unique thing, as seductive as the sherbety decor of Carol's home, as mysterious as the illness that seizes her. It will also seize any viewer who dares to surrender to its spell. Feel free to laugh or scream...
...fascist youth--when I was in a boys' and girls' Christian group and we memorized as much of the Bible as we could and spat it back at our leaders. I feel like I was hypnotized for a while and anything you have to be put under a spell to believe in I can't agree with." For Carter, atheism has a lot to do with the way she has lived her life. "There are all these economically poor people running around believing they're going to have it better in the afterlife. The best way to have a good...
Judy Carter says she depends on her daughter'ssense of humor, too. "We're making jokes aboutpoor people and rich people and we'll get totalking and we'll get on a laughing spell for halfan hour...
...arrest brought the first spell of relief from the fear that had gripped Japan for two months. The nation had been holding its breath, worried that another horror would occur before police built their case against Aum. On May 5 a cleaning woman in Tokyo's sprawling Shinjuku station found a hydrogen-cyanide gas bomb before it went off. The device had been placed near a ventilation duct that would have spread the gas quickly. It was potent enough to have killed 10,000 people...