Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the floorboards, the American economy is thrumming contentedly, warm but not overheated, seven years into a remarkably durable expansion. All the economy's parts seem to be working together for a change: joblessness is under 5%--a 24-year low--yet inflation is holding steady at around 3%, a combination that economists thought impossible. Productivity is growing smartly, and consumer confidence is near an eight-year high, which may help explain why personal debt is climbing. And the twin banes of the 1990s--job insecurity and income inequality--show small signs of improvement...
Parents ought to read the instinctively wise and warm article "Why Johnny Can't Sleep" [HEALTH, April 14]. Years ago child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim told me that the isolation and separateness in American society were not necessarily healthy. Children who sleep in bed with family members learn important behaviors about getting along with others socially. This idea was greatly reinforced for me while I was director of the Southeast Asian refugee program for children, ages 1 to 6, at the Indochinese Center in Portland, Oregon. Seeing firsthand how much better socially adjusted and emotionally mature these war-torn, Third World...
...cold temperatures in December, Thomas said many homeless people had likely sought shelter in warm places out of sight of the counters...
...warm weather yesterday brought the bats out," Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. "We were going the other way with pitches. We had a lot of extra-base hits...
...Lewis, a staff member of Herrell's ice cream store, confirmed my relative uniqueness when I visited the store on a frigid January day. "In the winter, it's the hard core ice cream eaters, not the fair weather fans." The store makes most of its money during the warm summer months when ice cream can be interpreted as a respite from the heat. However, in Boston, which Lewis describes as "a mecca for ice cream," it seems that there are a few others like me out there. "Even on a day when the temperature is below zero, there...