Word: torpor
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...slow somewhat yet still expand more than 3%. But pencil in China for another year of scorching 9% growth. There are encouraging signs of vitality even in Japan and Germany, the world's second and third largest economies, which have struggled for years to break out of their torpor...
...somewhat but still grow at around 3%, while China could notch up another year of scorching 9% growth. This year there are even encouraging signs of vitality in Japan and Germany, the world's second and third largest economies, which have struggled for years to break out of their torpor. Lurking in the background, however, are a few threats as ominous as the three bears. The worldwide supply of oil can barely keep pace with the huge surge in demand that has been the force driving up prices to more than $60 bbl. - and which potentially puts the world...
...world leader, it must have set some sort of miserable record: in a poll last December, just 1% of French voters said they wanted President Jacques Chirac to stand for reelection in 2007. For Chirac, that capped a terrible year of economic torpor, electoral setback and, in November, a fiery eruption of social unrest in the suburbs of Paris and elsewhere. Trying to restore his authority, the French President gave a televised New Year address to the nation. "We must believe in France," he told his compatriots, in a pathos-filled speech quickly lampooned by the nation's cartoonists...
...POWER THE GREATEST Typically, Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, creates a few bars of something gorgeous and then lets her songs descend into frustrating torpor. But here music's reigning masochist drifts into Memphis and finds some much needed structure. The title track opens with a fleeting musical quote of Moon River and proceeds to tell the riveting--and neatly resolved--tale of a boxer. Empty Shell, a title that once might have been descriptive of her style, has a jaunty, optimistic streak. And it doesn't hurt that the album is full of great playing from River City legends...
...world leader, it must have set some sort of miserable record: in a poll in December, just 1% of French voters said they wanted President Jacques Chirac to stand for re-election in 2007. For Chirac, that capped a terrible year of economic torpor, electoral setback and, in November, a fiery eruption of social unrest in the suburbs of Paris and other major cities. Trying to restore his authority, the French President gave his customary televised New Year's address to the nation. "We must believe in France," he told his compatriots in a pathos-filled speech quickly lampooned...