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...much to say. McCain is angry at what the Democrats and the Wall Street executives have done to deceive the American people. I pray that the people will listen to McCain's anger and endorse what he will do as President: freeze spending and cut pork-barrel and other unnecessary spending. These steps are essential. John Talerico, MIDDLETOWN...
...attributed the overstretched budgets to optimism biases and “strategic misrepresentation” in the original construction plans. Flyvbjerg said planners often overestimate revenue and underestimate costs in order to ensure funding for their projects, comparing this “culture of misrepresentation” to pork barrel spending. “You get rewarded for misrepresenting projects and you get punished if you are honest,” he said, adding that he often receives e-mails from planners confessing this. “It’s like I’m some Catholic priest...
...This measure would put over 1,000 hardworking families out of work, and with this national economy and Massachusetts in another deficit, where are people going to find work?” Dorchak called the arguments used by the dog racing industry “bottom of the barrel attempts to confuse voters,” emphasizing that all data used by her group is documented by records and photos taken by the tracks themselves. She said she believed the 2008 campaign would be successful because of the improved availability of data and the gradual phase-out of racing...
...while Ännchen, in the same scene, wears a form-fitting black blazer and a pair of department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space on the stage with a blue plastic trash bin that looks like it might have been purchased at the Home Depot in West Roxbury, Mass. The period and setting...
...much to say. McCain is angry at what the Democrats and the Wall Street executives have done to deceive the American people. I pray that the American people will listen to McCain's anger and endorse what he will do as President: freeze spending and cut pork-barrel and other unnecessary spending. These steps are essential for the American people. John Talerico, MIDDLETOWN...