Word: upshot
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...upshot is that you can probably throw out the window most of the tax proposals Obama and McCain have been talking about on the campaign trail. The demands on government are growing, and investors around the world won't finance huge U.S. deficits forever. Four or eight years down the road, the likeliest scenario is that the overall tax burden will be higher, not lower...
...trying to please or excite whomever is listening as it is a documentation of where the artist has been and where they’re likely to go. What they produce is a sort of audio-autobiography, from which one can extrapolate the maker’s personality.The upshot of all of this is that the track listings behind these works can almost certainly be found on the internet. This isn’t news. But it seems to me that not enough people look into the provenance of these compilations, and thus, are missing out on some great stuff.Take...
...Whatever the explanation - caution, confusion, failure to communicate - the upshot is that the straight business press has left a vacuum in explaining the consequences to the public. And that vacuum has been filled by professional gabbers like Glenn Beck and James Cramer, both of whom were predicting a possible Great Depression yesterday. They might well be right, but we've heard them get so excited about so much for so long, who can possibly know? The vacuum has also been filled by political columnists and pundits, some of whom (like Paul Krugman) actually know a lot about the subject...
...Hulme and Kevin Buehler and senior risk expert Andrew Freeman argue in the Harvard Business Review this month that "a growing emphasis on mathematical modeling has rendered much of the risk-management debate and research incomprehensible to those outside the finance function and the financial services industry." The upshot, they say, is that corporate managers who aren't already experts at risk aren't prepared to factor it into their decisions...
...pivotal moment in Huckleberry Finn is when Huck decides not to do what his conscience tells him is right, to turn in "Miss Watson's Jim" as a runaway slave. Instead, he decides to abide by his personal affection for Jim, although the upshot will be, according to all he has been taught, eternal damnation for violating the norms of society and its view that a slave is the rightful property of its owner...