Over the past month and a half, the U.S. stock market has tumbled from its late April highs, and talk of a double-dip recession is becoming more frequent.

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It didn't help that we were smack in the middle of the Depression and Prohibition. (Talk about a double whammy-first, you lose your job, then you can't even get a drink.) I remember a lot of potato soup at home, along with canned peas, canned pears, canned everything.

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He criticised the focus on talk of a "double-dip" and "triple-dip" recession - defined by the economy contracting in two consecutive quarters - saying the longer-term trend was more important.

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For a while, they persuade him to mount the standard campaign of dealmaking, double-talk and false promises, until Hepburn brings him back to his senses and to her.

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Or held a debate to gauge, in terms of degree of difficulty, which most fluently speaks double-talk?

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There is talk of reducing taxes on electricity, which double its cost, and applying to all industries a cut in payroll taxes that was given last year to a select few.

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Just a year ago, India was an investor darling, accustomed to near double-digit gross domestic product growth and talk of rivalry with China to be the fastest-growing big economy in the world.

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