Word: bille
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...repeats Japan’s mistakes. Tokyo spent $2.1 trillion between 1991 and 1995, yet the economy stagnated. Politicians built roads to nowhere, starving businesses of capital and workers of jobs. Washington should fund some infrastructure repairs, but such projects should undergo cost-benefit analyses. Lacking such oversight, the bill recently rushed through Congress will breed fraud and waste...
...first glance, the shops would seem to be a good place to sell the Xbox Zune, and handsets that operate on the Windows mobile OS. (See pictures of Bill Gates: The Early Years...
Kenneth W. Starr—the lead prosecutor of President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal—arrived at Harvard Law School yesterday night to deliver a talk on the Roberts court and its decisions on business cases, but during the course of the conversation, Starr’s controversial decision to work towards upholding Proposition 8 generated mixed views among students. Starr, a former United States solicitor general, was named as lead counsel for the official proponents of Proposition 8 last December. The California proposition, which eliminated same-sex couples’ right to marry, has remained...
...should do the talking for the U.S.? This could be a problem area. Obama's planned point man on Iran is Dennis Ross, who served as Middle East envoy to both George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Ross takes a hawkish view of dealing with Iran, emphasizing the coercive diplomacy of sanctions. Ross himself was not available for interviews, but his position on Iran is well known. He has long argued for ramping up economic pressure on Tehran, telling TIME in 2007 that "if Iran thinks it is actually going to be cut off economically, which has not been...
...Gregg news continues a string of disappointments to have hit the Obama team, including the withdrawal of two other Cabinet nominees, Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Tom Daschle and the first Commerce Secretary choice, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. But those prior separations were different in kind. Both Daschle and Richardson volunteered to leave the nomination process once their appointments became political liabilities. Gregg was a political asset to the President, one Obama boasted of in his Monday press conference, until the withdrawal. As any teenager will tell you, it's far better when a breakup is mutual than...