One corner of the market that is doing well as the consumer economy slogs on to the holiday horizon and unemployment remains over 9.5%: For-profit colleges.
Interspersing exciting action sequences with tense slogs through hostile terrain, the movie has the structure of a classic western, with wolves standing in for outlaws or Indians.
Getting more people to work longer and enticing individuals to curb borrowing and invest for their own retirement are tough slogs in Korea, as in most of the world.
The villages we'd be stopping in would all be 7 to 10 miles apart on a path that follows a steady gradient up a single valley, a positively leisurely prospect compared with the up-and-down slogs from one valley to the next that characterize many Himalayan trails.