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At an IMF Conference last November, Summers invoked the specter of “secular stagnation,” a condition in which aggregate demand persistently falls short of potential supply, generating under-employment and slow, if any, growth.

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The specter of mass starvation loomed.

There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

As the medieval knight Antonius Block returns from the wild goose chase of the Crusades and arrives on the rocky shore of Sweden, only to find the specter of death waiting for him, Mr. Teszler sat in the dark with his fellow students.

So from 2007 to 2015, Risen lived under the specter of going to federal prison.

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