Word: towardness
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...through an experience of frustration and miscommunication, mirroring Phoebe's own, fine. But if that's what he's up to, he fails to maintain a coherence of tone within that narrative technique. At one point, Phoebe does something quite dramatic and dangerous. The movie has been steaming steadily toward this foreshadowed moment, and we feel it coming as a reckoning, involving shrinks, medication, and if Phoebe is lucky, rescue. Instead Barnz, bizarrely, softens it and turns it into another trip to the principal's office, stretching his credibility past the breaking point...
...Contrast China's economic rescue effort with the stimulus package recently signed into law by President Barack Obama. In the U.S., despite all the talk about shovel-ready construction projects, only about $100 billion of the $787 billion in stimulus spending will go toward new infrastructure this year. Another $282 billion goes to tax cuts or rebates, much of which, as economist Nouriel Roubini argues, will most likely be saved, not spent. A big chunk of the rest of the package will go, via the states, toward social services: increased unemployment benefits, more money for food stamps and for health...
...move in China seems to be relentlessly toward a free market economy. Because China has a rich treasury, it can afford to support a rotation to privatization without the immediate concern that its government will be troubled by huge deficits...
Right or wrong, Harvey was an artist of elocution, making music of news copy, building suspense with pauses Harold Pinter might envy. Though his voice wavered toward the end, he refused to quit. "Retiring," he said, "is just practicing up to be dead." He was still broadcasting the week before he died. Nobody, himself included, wanted Paul Harvey to stop talking...
After her CNBC taping finished, Orman swept across the parking lot toward a waiting Town Car. Her longtime driver, Jean Germain, a strapping gentleman from Haiti, came rushing over to take a garment bag from her hands. In lieu of a bonus, last year Orman opened a retirement account for him and made the maximum contribution of $5,000. The cash is sitting in a money-market fund until she decides that the market has bottomed out. She plans to dollar-cost-average into exchange-traded funds and a few individual stocks, as she suggests doing in her books. (Read...