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A WP front pager details a sure sign of the tightest U.S. labor market in thirty years--the upswing in companies looking for new hires in the U.S. prison population.
Countless articles in this vein have been published in the past few years--the recent controversial New York Times piece on the absurdity of the diagnosis "road rage," for instance ("You're Not Bad.
The portrait captures a fraught moment in Degas' career, when he had lost interest in the witty chronicle of modern life he'd pursued with such brilliance for 20 years--the parade of shopgirls and laundresses and jockeys and prostitutes that had made him famous.
"It was the first reported disappearance of U.S. military in Colombia," though the Pentagon and Colombian authorities have been cooperating for years--the WP should say how many--to battle narcotics.
Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations.