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...Reserve chairman told the Senate Energy Committee last week that "we do see the obvious loss of jobs ... because it has made us largely uncompetitive in a number of industries in which gas is a critical input." He also saw little hope that prices would fall. "We are not apt to return to earlier periods of relative abundance and low prices anytime soon," he said...
...that he would help to make part of the American character. "I am," she wrote, "a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country; and the least appearance of an encroachment on those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil exceedingly." It was as good a description of the real Benjamin Franklin--and, indeed, of a typical American--as is likely to be found anywhere...
Tanaka said that Monday was an apt time to make such a statement since the House was preparing to close its current term...
That's a pretty apt way to describe him. Not a very good singer. But he gives it his best shot...
Grazer, who has an obvious affection for Clarissa and the circles in which she travels--moviemakers and those who want to sleep with them--gently skewers rather than condemns. She spikes the narrative with apt metaphors: one character's face "dropped like a famous name at a West L.A. dinner party"; another is so disheveled, she "looked like Courtney Love in the early, pre-op, pre-Oscar party years"; and when Clarissa first speaks with Aaron, she notes that his accent "came out as flat as her mother's breasts (before the lift...