Word: temperedness
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Nearly every positive sign of renewed growth turns out to have a negative catch. The good news on unemployment is more than tempered by the alarming persistence of long-term joblessness. "Even reasonably healthy companies are cutting their payrolls," Labor Secretary Robert Reich said recently. "In September, American businesses were...
On Human Wheels, his 12th album, Mellencamp's social conscience remains as keen as ever, but his small-town twang has evolved into a lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a country boy who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by...
On Human Wheels, his 12th album, Mellencamp's social conscience remains as keen as ever, but his small-town twang has evolved into a lusher, worldlier sound. The album, like the diary of a Hoosier who went to the big city and returned tougher and wiser, is tempered by the...
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SUFFERING COMBINED losses of $13 billion over the past three years, the Big Three U.S. auto manufacturers have each begun to show signs of a rebound. Following a dazzling string of showroom hits that increased sales this year by 25%, Chrysler reported first-quarter earnings...
I'm talking, of course, about the latest revival of the "grade inflation" debate, spurred recently by Prof. Harvey "C." Mansfield's short-tempered comment that grades became devalued because professors fear giving low grades to minority students. In addition to the familiar round of inter-ethnic name-calling, this...