Word: blowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...economic growth. But as in any good domestic spat, Hollande wasn't going to let his partner have the last word: He retorted Wednesday by noting the right's tax cuts had largely favored the wealthy to justify reiterating his pledge to reverse them. He tried to soften that blow - but only made his squeeze look ill-informed - by noting that the resulting increases would only effect around 200,000 people whose monthly take-home pay exceeds $4,300. Besides, Hollande seemed to sneer, the proposal has long been part of the official program of the party his candidate-cohabitant...
...from a guy with whom she has to share a bathroom. On Friday, she reiterated her promise to refrain from tax hikes and other measures "that discourage working," suggesting instead that the debt may be tackled by stiffening capital gains or corporate profit taxes. Royal then landed Hollande a blow square to the political shorts by tapping party heavyweight Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who contested the primary against her, to lead a study on tax reform. In doing so, Royal not only turned to a recent foe to politically smite her life partner, she also handed economic expert Strauss-Kahn...
...account, or the net flow of transactions between the U.S. and other countries, is “unsustainable.” He estimated for The Wall Street Journal earlier this week that the dollar must fall another 20 percent, and that the odds are only increasing that an unexpected blow to the U.S. economy, like a terrorist attack or a collapse of the housing market, could prompt a financial crash. “So far we’ve just seen a small ripple in the dollar and not the big tsunami that could hit someday...
...Saturday,” senior center Julie Chu said. “But you have a whole week to prepare, and you need to use that. It’s pretty easy to say, “Oh, I have a lot of time,” and to blow it off. Everyone on the team knows that they have to get their work done early.”There’s work to be done on the ice as well, with first place on the line in this return leg of the home-and-home series between...
...written, the law would end more than three decades of Iraq's nationalized oil industry. It would give 10-year exploration and development rights to foreign oil companies - at least those willing to start drilling in a country where hundreds of contractors have been killed and pipelines are regularly blow up. Once the exploration deals expire, the companies can negotiate to produce the oil for another 20 years in partnership with the state-owned Iraq National Oil Company. Foreign oil companies would then pay the government 12.5% royalties of the oil's value, and be able to export the rest...