David Jones
David Jones
Twentieth-century British Modernist poet and painter who is best remembered for his long poem "The Anathemata." His other works include "In Parenthesis" and "Cara Wallia Derelicta."
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 November 1895
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If the consumer gives up here -- if these layoffs lead to a break in confidence and more cutbacks in spending later, we will be on the brink of or perhaps into a recession.
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He was a teacher and black belt in karate and it was all taken from him.
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He was dead last in the first 10 meters.
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He has a gift that he can't help but share.
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This was a private consensual act. It was not, in our view, harmful either to the participants or to public health, and it's also discriminatory in that heterosexual conduct is not prosecuted.
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What Katrina has done is shift the economic focus from inflation to growth.
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You can imagine scenarios at this point where the Goldilocks economy turns into a nightmare.
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To determine the impact of a one-day event really depends on where you are on the phase of that particular project.
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We've had these ups and downs in terms of psychology. Greenspan saw that the global crisis was going to slow U.S. growth.
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We've had these ups and downs in terms of psychology,
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Two good things have happened in Japan. We've overcome the uncertainty of who the leader's going to be; and secondly, they are listening to the markets, in terms of permanent tax cuts, in terms of banking reform.
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My favorite line is that economists were created to make weather forecasters look good, ... A good dose of humility is always required.
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Maybe it's better because we're more compact. There are not as many outlying, sparsely-populated areas.
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Nothing in these numbers would change the outlook for Fed policy, which is to tighten credit and to try to encourage market conditions that would slow growth to a more sustainable pace this year. The report leaves the Fed on track for a quarter-point hike in February, but there isn't the kind of urgency to warrant a 50 basis point hike.