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...rages as to how the consumer drama will play out. The worry factor is not to be underplayed. Recessions and bear markets are as much about psychology as fundamentals, which is precisely why the stock market--unable to find something it can believe in--has worked up such a sweat. To that extent, the media may be fueling the pessimism. In January, TIME put the worried faces of a family of four on the cover and expounded on HOW TO SURVIVE THE SLUMP. More depressing has been the recent stream of daily headlines about plunging stock prices...
...SWEAT George W. Bush sprinted through his first legislative test last week when the core of his $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan easily passed in the House. He faces a much ?bigger hurdle, however, when the bill goes to the evenly split Senate. Illustration for TIME by C.F.Payne...
...others remain local and regional commodities to this day. Apparently drugs such as kava, a beverage made from a pepper root in the Pacific Islands, and qat, a leaf product that is generally chewed, never caught on because of the former's taste of "chalk and body sweat" and the latter's tendency to cause constipation and nausea. Drug users were willing to make sacrifices for the high, but as Courtwright points out, the markets were overflowing with more potent drugs that were more pleasing to the senses...
...Nelson has been in the senate for all of two months, but he knows what the George W. Bush treatment feels like. Not just the win-a-little-nickname treatment (Bush dubbed him Nellie) but a far more punishing one--the kind that can make a politician sweat. A Democrat and former Governor of Nebraska, Nelson was onstage with Bush at the Omaha Civic Center last Wednesday when the President set about tickling the crowd of almost 4,000. Pointing out both Nelson and his Republican colleague, Chuck Hagel, Bush declared, "I know that when it comes to doing...
...crisis-the result of the markets' perception that Turkey lacks the political will to reform its economy-undermines the country's credibility at a time when it is trying to join the European Union. And as the euro itself wobbled, the beads of sweat on the faces of bankers in Frankfurt and London as they watched the lira's plunge was proof positive that Turkey, whatever the pace of its integration into E.U. institutions, is already in Europe...