We're beginning to see some signs that the economy is starting to weaken in the second half of 1998, ... We're going to see 1 to 2 percent growth. If we see those numbers, then we can move down even lower below 5 1/2 percent on the long bond.
Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.
Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.
The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.
He wears the rose Of youth upon him.
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.