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Still, President Franklin Roosevelt - who rode into office on a platform of deficit reduction - initially hedged his bets, taking stabs at public-works projects and farm subsidies while also rolling out balanced-budget initiatives. When a British economist visited the White House in 1934 saying deficit spending was the best engine to boost consumer demand and create jobs, Roosevelt balked. (Two years later, the economist - John Maynard Keynes - published that advice in his seminal work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, which revolutionized economic thought by debunking the widely held belief that the market naturally tends toward full...
Three Harvard cross country stars made the trip yesterday to Terre Haute, Ind. for the 2009 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships. Running against fields of the nation’s best, juniors Dan Chenoweth and Claire Richardson and sophomore Kailyn Kuzmuk put in strong performances...
...have the nation’s best. It is really good competition,” Richardson said. “[It] kind of makes it fun to be in a big swarm of runners...
...statistic that best defined Sacred Heart’s torrid offensive output was its three-point shooting percentage—an astounding 62.5 percent...
...pass without significant changes: "I believe there are a number of Democratic Senators who do care what the American people think and are not interested in this sort of arrogant approach that everybody sort of shut up and sit down, get out of the way, we know what's best...