Word: bulwarks
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...economy was, before this happened, on the very verge of slipping into a documentable recession - and taking the rest of the world with it. Europe?s economic growth was anemic, Japan?s nonexistent, and now the American bulwark upon which the globe has relied for the past decade has had a literal and figurative hole blown...
Hope's memorial service, at Nashville's Christ Presbyterian Church, was a showcase of faith's bulwark against sorrow. For all the tears shed, one guest called it a "victory," not just for Hope in heaven but also for David and Nancy, who had emerged with faith intact. There was, without boastfulness, a sense of a challenge met and of completion...
...vital part of a student’s experience of living in Cambridge have shut their doors. Store 24, one of two always-open establishments in the Square, closed two weeks ago. Video Pro, the Square’s only video rental store, and the Crimson Sports Grille, a bulwark of first-year social life, have both foundered...
...cultural flowering. It is on the brink of, dare anyone say it, nationhood--not in constitutional terms but, perhaps more important, in cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese and the rest of Asia as well have posited a Taiwan that is so much more than a cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now, in its eyes at least, the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course, the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical...
...enough. If reform is really going to work, Takenaka and his planners need to build out Japan's social safety net, providing economic padding--and a political bulwark--for the inevitable layoffs and business collapses. Koizumi and Takenaka also need to go into sales mode, a Japanese version of the Bush road show on taxes. And, on a technical note, Japan needs to let its currency slide. A weaker yen--say, 135 to the dollar--would strengthen corporate profits. The danger is that a sliding yen could set off a round of devaluations, as neighboring economies rush to slash their...