Word: upturns
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...bonds for the home front, dependent-less me would be off in foreign lands, paying down high-interest-rate consumer debt. Like many Americans I've been too good a credit-card patriot for too long, and a profitable, adventurous, honorable-type break would position me well for the upturn that should hit in oh, about six months (or more...
...irresistible, they say - $100 billion in fiscal stimulus from Congress, as many rate cuts as it takes from the Fed, the long-awaited upturn in the business cycle that was due to come this summer, then this fall, then this winter before Sept. 11 happened. Because Sept. 11 did happen, the dip will be deeper, but the comeback will be quicker. Unemployment will peak around, say, 6 percent in the spring, a lagging indicator as always, and by late summertime 2002 the living will be easy all over again...
...think of PIERRE TRUDEAU as the first postmodern politician. He loved to repudiate conventional partisan ideologies, and if, in the end, that served his partisan goals, well, there would be just a little Gallic upturn at the corners of his mouth. He had a near perfect understanding of the possible uses of celebrity. If a photographer was close, he'd manage a jackknife off the low board, a rose in his buttonhole or a pretty woman on his arm. He knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier he was--moving gracefully, radiating freedom, yet somehow making...
...think of Pierre Trudeau as the first big-time postmodern politician. He loved to repudiate conventional partisan ideologies, and if in the end that served his partisan goals, well, there would be just the little Gallic upturn at the corners of his mouth. He had a near-perfect understanding of the possible uses of celebrity. With a little jacknife off the low board here if a photographer was positioned right, a lively judo tussle there (again, photographers were present), a rose in his buttonhole, a pretty woman on his arm, he knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier...
...bullet train), aerospace (Airbus and the Ariane rocket, produced in France with European partners), telecommunications (mobile phones and wireless technology) and civil engineering (the dazzling new Normandy Bridge and the Franco-British Channel Tunnel). With assets like these, the country is well placed to benefit from the cyclical upturn lifting all European economies. Meanwhile, aggressive French firms are making their mark abroad. Vivendi last month announced a merger with Canada's Seagram that will give the new company control of Universal's film and music interests and make it a major player in the entertainment field...