chill

It had rained all morning and the overcast clouds trapped a chill in the air.

As the weather chills and the calendar fills with festivities, I reach for hard apple cider.

“My target is to pay the rent, pay the insurance and pay the guys,” the owner told his manager as they sipped coffee in the early morning November chill and waited for their first customer.

Executives are starting to chill out about tariffs after a year of anxiety.

“From a normal lawyerly perspective, these things are really imprecise. But that imprecision gives maximum flexibility so that a range of people can be targeted and, potentially, chilled,” she said.