Then we climbed out of that hole, got to the plus side by about 100 points, thereabouts.

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Twenty minutes later, we climbed the stairs out into the night, hustling after Li down the block to the Galeries Lafayette, the ten-story department store on the Boulevard Haussmann.

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And the hole created by that terrible recession is deep, and we have climbed part of the way out of it, but we have further to go.

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Aren't we an older, more poorly educated society than the one that climbed out of similar debt after World War II?

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