Word: trailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unemployment up, to 5%; retail sales down 0.4%; industrial production flat. The housing market, where all the trouble started, is still in the tank. Banks are reporting big new losses and layoffs. Stock prices are plummeting. Presidential contenders are starting to focus on the economy on the campaign trail. It's ugly out there...
...Austin in November and is expanding to Los Angeles this month and San Francisco in February. There are similar companies, like Private Paparazzi in San Diego and Personal Paparazzi in Britain, and wannabe big shots in other places have taken matters into their own hands, hiring freelance photographers to trail them...
...standing at Boylston Gate, waiting for the welcoming yet disheartening “Reading Period” sign to radiate from an approaching shuttle. 3:28 AM—I think I just saw a tumbleweed drift down deserted Mass Ave (too much Oregon Trail?). I swear that the schedule said there was one at 3:15. 3:35 AM—I just saw lights on Mass Ave. It must finally be here! Wait, it’s not slowing down. What the hell!? I start sprinting down the street, praying the shuttle’s headlights shine...
...What happened in Michigan may be a signal of how the presidential race unfolds in the months to come, first as each party picks its nominee and then as the two winners square off in November. The pocketbook is back in a big way on the presidential campaign trail, rocketing past the Iraq war to the top of voter concerns. "For every candidate in either party, this is the supermarket-checkout moment: Do you get it? Do you understand what people are going through?" says Bruce Reed, who ran the policy shop for Bill Clinton's It's-the-economy...
During an unremarkable stop on the presidential campaign trail last week, Hillary Clinton was thrown what appeared to be a softball: “How do you do it? How do you keep so upbeat and wonderful?” And then it happened. A catch in her voice, a gleam in her eyes—was she crying? Even as Hillary spoke—“It’s not easy, and I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do?...