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In desperation a bored viewer may grasp at the flimsiest piece of stale slapstick to let out a yawning chuckle, but mainly the film can only be enjoyed by those who find turkeys amusing.
I have to admit that before watching this one with my 2 year old daughter, it seemed virtually certain that I'd be doing a great deal of groaning and yawning for the next hour and fifteen minutes.
Usually for me the indications are....1) I'm not bored 2) I'm not yawning 3) i don't have to make an excuse to goto to the toilet even when I don't need to.
The tearjerking that tugged though was uniquely caused by suppressed hilarity - when I wasn't yawning, that is.
I was yawning after two minutes of seeing seals wash up on rocks and having inane dialog try and justify its presence.
But whereas Ring had me hiding behind the sofa, Ring 2 just left me yawning - or, more to the point, thinking "Right, tomorrow I'm going to log on to IMDb and tell everybody how much I hate this movie!"
"Azumi" only left me yawning and wishing for the closing credits.
And Greece has just voted for a new property tax to help close its yawning fiscal deficit.
Exposed to South Korean movies, music, and other products, they recognize the yawning gap between their government’s propaganda and the country’s grim reality.
Huge tax cuts and rising military spending have fueled an enormous rise in imports, and therefore a yawning trade deficit now accompanies America’s weak fiscal position.
Those flaws were reflected in yawning fiscal deficits, regulatory overkill, and a lack of economic dynamism that led to sclerotic growth then and the eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis now.
On the other hand, the review changes nothing concerning the two yawning holes – the twin fiscal and external deficits – in the national accounts.
One would think that a country like the US, with a current account deficit of roughly $800 billion a year, would realize that such a yawning external gap is inevitably financed only by selling off assets, which means that foreigners with money acquire ownership and control of US-based businesses.
The counterpart of America's immense fiscal deficit is its yawning trade gap.
Mexico, with its popular and reform-minded government, strong growth, and a current-account deficit below 2% of GDP, has gained favor with investors, who have turned away from Brazil, with its political risk, faltering growth, and yawning external deficit.
Much of the concern over the past few years has centered on America’s yawning current account and fiscal deficits, and its effort to get China to let the yuan float more freely against the dollar.
If left unaddressed, the yawning gap between under-connected and hyper-digitalized countries will widen, exacerbating existing inequalities.
But even many traditional laissez-faire conservatives should recognize that a yawning divide between rich and poor is not good for business.
Countries like Ecuador, hobbled by massive external debt, poor infrastructure, a corrupt ruling class, and yawning inequality, need international agreements akin to those of the European Union that help reduce debt burdens, boost technology transfer, and promote social and economic justice.
But, while the G-7 countries, which dominate voting at the Bank, all declare their commitment to democracy and good governance – and espouse promoting them as one of their central objectives – there is a yawning gap between what they preach and what they practice.
On the Middle East, a difference in emphasis has become a yawning gulf.
But one feature above all others captures the underlying problem: the yawning gap between the words of patients who speak their minds and the terminology of producers, experts, and authorities who mince words.
True, the economy was slowing when Bush took office, but he also inherited an enormous fiscal surplus, amounting to 2% of GDP, which he transformed into a yawning deficit, equaling 4.5% of GDP.
The real issue is a yawning gap between paper and practice.
But the experiment failed when Egypt’s leaders detached themselves from the realities of their constituency – poverty, illiteracy, and widespread anger at yawning inequality and top-down westernization.
America’s Scorched Earth ManagementSigns of the American economy’s perilous condition are everywhere – from yawning fiscal and current-account deficits to plummeting home prices and a feeble dollar.
The continent’s fastest-growing economies are those that have been willing and able to allow yawning external gaps from 2000 to 2013: 26% of GDP, on average, in Liberia, 17% in Mozambique, 14% in Chad, 11% in Sierra Leone, and 7% in Ghana.
At the very moment that Kenya needs to borrow more to bridge a yawning budget gap, its leaders are bumping up against the cold calculus of international finance.
The main risk in 2006 is that America’s long-brewing problems come to a head globally: investors, finally taking heed of the large structural fiscal deficit, the yawning trade gap, and the high level of household indebtedness, may pull money out of the US in a panic.
The Education Antidote to RadicalizationDUBAI – No visitor to the Middle East can avoid noticing the yawning gap between the educational, entrepreneurial, and occupational aspirations of the region’s young people and the harsh reality that deprives so many of them of a positive future.
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