Books Included for This Word Counting

Particularly since the chances seem to be pretty good that those remaining "imbalances" that issued directly from the bubble and its aftermath -- huge holes in our accounts at home and abroad, to name two -- are apt to be around long enough to help usher in the next recession.

And it's also a sure-fire way, as Mr. Greenspan has demonstrated for 16 very long years, to keep your job.

What's left is a salty film that can remain on the road for 12 to 24 hours before a storm, as long as there is no rain to wash it away.

Yesterday, the souped-up vehicles and their banged-up drivers -- already bearing taped ribs and stitches from crashes during the seven previous days -- jolted along the longest stage of the route, 656 miles.

And the closely arranged seating, customized for knee-to-knee coziness, means even first-time patrons don't stay strangers for long.

A fairly recent addition to long-gentrified Park Slope, Barbes takes its name from the Parisian neighborhood where North African immigrants are most populous, and where the bar's two French expat owners came of age.

Legendary pianist Cecil Taylor has long been a regular and, before new management took over last year, you could count on bartenders to regale you with stories about the leonine composer.

When we look back on things at the end of December, 49 long weeks from now, "Post to Wire," released this week by Richmond Fontaine, just may be the best Northwest album of 2004.

She had risen at some dispiriting, dawn-chorus hour, made a long, jet-lagged trek to BBC Television Centre - and then the general practitioner of death hanged himself, all the programme's guest slots were cancelled, and Joan was bumped off the show for 24 hours.

It was a long journey from Ophelia to Martha, but one that she traveled with an unmatchable authority and an intuitive sense of character.

From what is presumably a long and exhausting history of arguing with sceptics, he tends to anticipate criticism and fold it into his ever-extending sentences.

It also peaks some reader curiosity as to the truth about Mabel.) Pete reached for the ashtray, took a long gulp of ale, and sighed with satisfaction.

Mercifully, we have reached a point where we no longer seek endless euphemisms for public toilets or lavatories.

Joining them in obscurity are "a fat" for an erection, "burl" as in the delightful expression of optimism "let's give it a burl", "moola" for money, "clapped out" for something long beyond its use-by date, "stone the crows" (an expression of amazement and an impossibility, if you think about it), "donkey's years" for a very long period of time, "Buckley's chance" in the sense of very little likelihood, and "raving ratbag" for all wild-eyed purveyors of crazy ideas.

We didn't have long enough - and we didn't have a large enough population - to embed an authentically Australian vernacular before the age of mass media and mass communication.

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