Word: succumbing
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...recessionary forces. In the postwar era, the most commonly prescribed medicine for an economic downturn has been fiscal stimulation. But persistently high federal deficits, even during periods of robust economic growth, have taken that option off the shelf. Some economists fear that if a recession does strike, Washington could succumb to policy paralysis...
SOME people make history, others just succumb to it. In the events of the past year in Eastern Europe, Gorbachev has played a passive role. He did not "break up an old bloc;" he merely let the old bloc crumble. The only active decision he made in these events of Eastern Europe was the decision not to play the role of a Deng Xiaoping or a Leonid Brezhnev...
White sales, the first days of a New Year's-resolution diet, an entry in a magazine subscription sweepstakes: January is a month of small hopes. And of petty disappointments: you know that the queen-size percales are going to be sold out, that you are going to succumb to a chocolate fit and that Ed McMahon is not going to appear on the doorstep and hand you a million-dollar check...