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...People expect to feel much more emotion than they actually do. We are good at rationalizing responses," says Jack Dovidio, a Yale psychologist and co-author of the study. "If there are certain costs - we don't want to get involved, maybe because we aren't quite as committed to equality as we thought we were - then we go through a series of rationalizations: 'Maybe it wasn't that bad.' That's the danger - that we explain everything away. It justifies our behavior...
...those measures aren't enough to stop the bleeding, deeper cuts could follow. "If the economy improves, maybe we won't have to be as aggressive," says Frey. "But if it seems to linger and we stay down in the recessionary trough here, who knows...
...most visible indications that something is amiss are the "For Sale" signs that have lingered in front of some houses here for months, freezing into lawns now coated with ice-glazed snow. Even some of the most desirable houses that once sold within days by word of mouth aren't moving, like the Tudor-style beauty that has been empty for five months, the longest I can recall in my 17 years living here. The house sold swiftly last summer. But the new owners recently put it back on the market because the sale of their current Des Moines house...
...such data in 1975. Toyota recently warned that in its coming fiscal year it would suffer its first annual operating loss in the company's 70 years. The carmaker also plans to suspend production at all 12 of its Japanese factories for 11 days in February because consumers worldwide aren't buying. Masafumi Yamamoto, head of foreign-exchange strategy for Japan at Royal Bank of Scotland, says a 10% appreciation of the yen slashes the GDP growth rate by 0.3 to 0.4 percentage points...
...Taft says that though both churches have "taken a step back from exclusivity," there is still Orthodox criticism that Catholics are too centralized, and Catholic criticism that the Orthodox aren't centralized enough...