Word: torpor
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...times have changed. Six interest-rate cuts totaling 275 basis points have gone into stirring the markets, the economy or both from their excess-induced torpor, and six months after the regime began neither are any better off. Not that we should necessarily blame Greenspan for failing to surgically remove the "cycle" from business cycle without touching the "business" - considering how hard we partied, this hangover really isn't so bad. But as hindsight-aided criticism mounts that Greenspan not only let the fire burn too hot during the boom but threw too much water on it when he decided...
...alliance of Islamic parties and members of Suharto's GOLKAR party to deny Megawati the top job after she finished way ahead of all challengers in the first post-Suharto election, Wahid's erratic leadership alienated most of his allies as the country continued to languish in economic torpor and separatist rebellions threatened to break apart the 13,000-island archipelago that constitutes the world's fourth most-populous nation...
...minimum, the trigger proposal suggests the easy part is over for Bush. His tax plan is far less likely to get through the Senate intact. Democrats have begun to shake themselves out of their postelection Pardongate torpor; they're ready to rumble. "This is the President presenting his tax proposal," says Indiana's Evan Bayh. "This is not Moses coming down the mountain with tablets of stone." Even some Republican leaders aren't singing in unison with Bush. Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley has predicted that the 10-year resolution his panel passes is likely to provide for tax cuts...
...Liberals and moderate Democrats look at the American landscape, slouch into torpor, and say, "They won." "They" are the Republicans. They control the Senate and the House, as well as most of the state congresses and governorships. They have survived for eight years under a President who talks populist but thinks centrist, and is on the starboard side of his own party. After the lawyers get through picking over the Florida tally as if it were a suit against Big Tobacco, conservatives will have a purchase on the White House. They already own talk radio. In Fox News, they have...
More and more musicians are losing the delicate art of infusing their music with soul. Not soul in the sense of smooth shakers like Barry White--I'm talking about the kind of soul that fights numb torpor and erases indifference. The kind that stirs powerful emotions inside of a person, the kind that can get a reaction...