Word: bloats
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...conservative partners swept into office on a reformist platform in 2002, they've become caught in the pincers of economic stagnation and growing public dissatisfaction. Efforts to nurture growth and job creation by cutting taxes and employee payroll charges and tightening pension schemes have done little more than further bloat France's budget deficit well beyond the 3% of gdp limit imposed by euro membership. Even the effectiveness of earlier attempts to attack unemployment remains a hot topic. Earlier this month conservative parliamentarians issued a scathing report denouncing the nation's 35-hour workweek, introduced in 2000 by the Socialist...
...funding for the first stage of the plan. Rolling out a whole pot of new money is what doomed his father's effort to do a similar thing in 1989, when the $400 billion price tag ($600 billion in today's dollars) became a symbol of NASA bloat. Laying out only a few dollars now is also smart politics at a time of $500 billion deficits, when the President is facing conservative Republicans who are irritable over his big-spending ways and Democrats who are complaining that Bush's pie-in-the-sky proposals crowd out important domestic priorities...
...does give us in this book is a richly reported recent history of Wall Street and corporate America told through an oversize personality. Weill is a gregarious man with a blowtorch temper and a need to be loved. And he is a window on the shareholder revolt against corporate bloat that raged through the 1980s...
...place I wanted to be. I spent hours trying on and trying on and nothing ever satisfied me. I was always upset by how things fit. Never thin enough that day, or if I was, I knew it might not fit as well two weeks from then during the bloat days. The whole process was just so masochistic. I thought about all of the undue stress I was putting myself through, all of the time I was wasting. Eventually I just got tired. I didn’t want to keep schlepping up and down Fifth Avenue undoing the damage...
...nothing justifies the degree of sheer pitilessness that the U.N.'s biggest, richest and most important member has shown toward the world body since the mid-'80s. That's when the U.S. decided to cut back on paying its U.N. dues, got serious about slashing the organization's bloat, held funding for the U.N. hostage to abortion politics and allowed the U.S. to begin accumulating well over $1 billion in arrears...