Word: hovering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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SHILLER I didn't say "terrible crash." That is one plausible scenario, but other plausible scenarios are that [the Dow] will go up for a while and then just kind of hover for many years and give a low return. My book uses a 10-year horizon, which is viewed as the really long term. Ten to 20 years, it looks like we will have poor runs, maybe in the negative for 20 years--there is a good chance of that. In periods of high P/Es [price-to-earnings ratios, a measure of how expensive stocks are], stocks have done...
...geography or biology. Immigrants, in particular, face a paradox, for they have broken with the codes of their homeland in search of a better alternative, but the new rules leave them longing for the old rules. White Teeth doesn't harangue or choose sides; it sketches characters that hover on the human edge of caricature. The novel is so sprawling, so audacious, that at times it feels as if Smith has lost control. "It could have done with a huge amount of editing," she concedes...
Like everyone else in Louisiana, folks in Natchitoches benefit from the state's appealing tax structure, which exempts the first $75,000 of home value. Another attraction is the region's semitropical climate--January temperatures rarely dip below 50[degrees]F, and summer days hover...
...gallery suits the art well, for the pictures as well are surreal. They are large and richly colored, bigger and brighter than life. Most are made of several separate prints, taken and hung so that they create one image. Each seems to hover somewhere in between dream and reality, presenting a scene that makes the viewer wonder whether such a scene could occur, or whether the images are just the artist's fantasy...
...gallery suits the art well, for the pictures as well are surreal. They are large and richly colored, bigger and brighter than life. Most are made of several separate prints, taken and hung so that they create one image. Each seems to hover somewhere in between dream and reality, presenting a scene that makes the viewer wonder whether such a scene could occur, or whether the images are just the artist's fantasy...