These are damning statistics in a nation whose convention orators keep congratulating themselves on America's present prosperity, and where the main political debate involves how to spend the giant surplus generated by that affluence.
But I won't cry because I have lost once, it won't keep me from sleeping or from going back to the gym.' Nor did it keep him from congratulating Ali or declaring that the master is still his idol.
Clemens, at age 39, waited at the clubhouse door for teammates afterward, his hand extended, but teammates kept hugging him, congratulating him on doing something no major leaguer had done: go 20-1.
"They couldn't figure out why they kept getting these letters congratulating them for having two Asians on the show!" Nichelle Nichols as "the other Asian".
And although Brady's wife, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, kept things classy by congratulating Eagles players after the game, many of the team's fans were ecstatic that the Patriots — and Brady — had lost.
During our interview, people keep coming up to congratulate him, asking him to pose for photos, wishing him luck at Wimbledon.
In the garden that hosts the Venice Biennale, the world's most important art exhibition, curators and collectors keep coming up to congratulate her, while her adorable white poodle Ozu looks on.
People kept stopping by to congratulate her on the movie's reception and, especially, the fact that distributions rights had gone to Newmarket, an indie powerhouse even before its successful bet-the-bank opening of Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ".
While we were speaking, members of the community kept approaching him to congratulate him on the turnout, which from the looks of it was well in the hundreds not bad for an offbeat event in a small community.
And when the group did spring for a bit of spectacle, as in a set-ending "We Got the Beat" that included extra percussion from a USC drum corps, it used the added energy to keep going, not to congratulate itself.
