Word: hardly
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Those looking to Washington for guidance may be disappointed. As the sordid spectacle of the budget battle and the midterm elections showed, there is still no will in the capital to make hard economic decisions. "How do they ever expect our kids to pay that $3.3 trillion debt?" worries Tom Tenner, a retired appliance-company executive in Houston. "No one seems to care or give a damn. They feel we can borrow forever." Still, the capital is not immune to the jitters. Washington caterers say that guest lists are smaller and there are more lunches than dinners, more wine than...
...Christmas season. There is a pleasure in searching for just the right gift, rather than throwing money at fads; in making presents rather than buying them; in savoring the lessons of the season, about generosity and devotion and mercy. Whatever the state of the economy, it would have been hard to waltz blithely through the holidays while the families of 280,000 troops kept vigil. As it is, the burdens, and hopes, of the season will be widely shared...
...Hardly anyone bothers to deny it. After a record eight years of peacetime economic expansion, the most widely predicted recession in recent U.S. history is finally at hand. No longer confined to the beaten-down Northeast, the slump has brought hard times for many Americans, ranging from Boston bankers to Atlanta autoworkers to California aerospace engineers. The big questions now: How far will the economy slide into misery, and how long will the slump last...
...Americans must scramble to cope with hard times and keep up their hopes that the recession turns out to be no worse than a moderate one. Yet the downturn could have a silver lining if it forces Americans to confront the legacy of 1980s-style borrowing and spending, which threatens to stifle growth for years to come. "We simply cannot go on doing business as usual in so intensely competitive a world," Sinai said. "This downturn may be a catalyst that will wake up the nation." If the recession does help inspire the U.S. to face its long-term economic...
...warning of what might happen if Gorbachev finally came down on the side of the authoritarians. "No one knows what this dictatorship will be like," he said, "what kind of dictator will come to power and what order will be established." That sounded like a warning that the hard-liners could easily push Gorbachev aside after using him to establish their power...