Word: upturn
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...reading says the economy is not picking up to anything like a normal recovery," says a Clinton economic adviser. At the same time, he adds, "the likelihood of a sharp downturn or a sharp upturn is small. We're not suddenly going to grow at 6% or shrink by 2%. I see absolutely no evidence for a return to a technical recession...
...lead in the polls during the Democratic Convention. Bush helped Clinton by handing his own convention over to right- wing extremists and by running a clumsy, unfocused campaign until he hit his stride in the final weeks. Perhaps the greatest stroke of luck for Clinton is that the economic upturn that could have buried his candidacy never materialized...
...about nothing here, from a broad economic point of view," said Sinai, noting that the candidates' tax and spending proposals tended to offset each other, leaving little room for stimulus. The Bush program, which is chockablock with spending cuts to pay for | tax reductions, "would make a weak upturn a little weaker," Sinai said, while Clinton's plans "would make a weak upturn no worse, but not really any better." In the long run, he added, "the Clinton program would give us more productivity and more potential output...
...carry the county again, but if he doesn't get a 300,000-vote plurality here, there's no way he'll take California." And that, says Representative Robert Dornan, one of the county's five Congressmen, "is iffy at best, unless there is a measurable and perceived economic upturn...
Many businesses are likewise waiting impatiently for the upturn to reach them. "The recovery -- yeah, they announced it the other day," scoffs Tom Barrows, 57, who runs an office-supply shop in Atlanta. "It was good they told me, because I didn't know. I'm not seeing any turnaround or new confidence." Concurs Robert Deck, 48, a Michigan steel salesman: "Nobody's carrying any inventory. If you get an order, it's just enough to get them through that...