Word: tiding
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...behind this lies something even edgier and more discomfiting, a connection between the amazing economy and the sick joke: the attitude that if this rising tide doesn't lift your boat, you must be one hell of a loser...
What he means, although he won't come out and say it, is that although the grain might be broken out in case of a truly bad recession, its root purpose is as a reserve to tide people over in the tough days just before the Second Coming...
...BORE BEING POOR Income has risen in the past two decades, but America's tide of prosperity hasn't floated all boats equally...
...Jersey Governor Christie Whitman and Atlantic City Mayor James Whelan with him, all of them preaching the gospel of small personal sacrifices for the greater public good. If you build it, suckers will come. As will thousands of jobs, millions of dollars in tax revenues and a rising tide of new prosperity that "will float all boats," as Whitman's flack says...
...interference from the government or the party. But Tuonan township is not ready to stretch its new thinking to national politics. Li Dongju credits her achievements to Deng's "wise opening," and she resents it when outsiders say China's ways are all bad. If there is a rising tide of nationalism, it lies less in dreams of hegemony than in anger at the patronizing demands of the West. "We are very proud of China and of being Chinese, and we do not like foreigners to criticize our ways," says Li Xiumin. "It is like a family. You know there...