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...said. “A 9-1 score is a symbol of a little bit of luck and hard work.”An explosive Crimson squad took the ice in the second period, as a slew of power-play attacks saw the score balloon to 8-1. Just 1:20 into the frame, Weaver notched her second goal of the night on a man advantage to pave the way for the team’s almost unstoppable Olympians. Vaillancourt put up her first score of the night on a power play just 46 seconds later and would...
...cake with our family and maybe one or two friends." She describes a party she went to recently for a three-year-old, in which the kids went on simulated space rides, then after pizza and a clown, made their own toy dolls, Lego trains and balloon sculptures, all in the span of a couple of hours. "The kids didn't have a chance to take in what they were there for," she says, "which was to celebrate their friend's birthday...
...pace, because it's in their own interest to do so. Unless they continue to push reform throughout the economy-especially in a financial sector dominated by bloated state-owned banks that lend lavishly to uncompetitive state enterprises-the cost of dealing with the problem later will balloon. (And the argument is fair enough: it's a lesson the Japanese learned in the 1990s when Tokyo dragged its feet on banking reform...
...Republicans, on the other hand, are braced for battle. That plank adding the children of illegal immigrants to the healthcare plan? Doomed, they say. Costly programs that rely on new taxes or financial schemes that balloon the current $5 billion structural deficit? Forget about it. "To the extent that he wants to pursue an aggressive agenda that includes profligate spending, he's going to encounter lots of opposition from Republicans," says Jon Fleischman, publisher of FlashReport an online digest of poitical news, commentary and blogs targeted to the California G.O.P...
...Mylar. It's done by a crew of about 110 volunteers perched on roofs and setbacks of seven buildings from 43rd to 48th Streets. They work under the guidance of confetti master Treb Heining, the Newport Beach, Calif., balloonatic whose company, Treb, Inc., is the go-to outfit for balloon effusions at the Republican National Conventions. Since 1991 Treb has coordinated the confetti fete for the Times Square Alliance, the business association in charge of the big show...