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...federal entitlement program and broke it up into 50 different allocations that the states could use for welfare purposes as they saw fit with a few provisos: for example, half of all single parents receiving welfare had to work at least 30 hours per week. Conveniently enacted in a buoyant economy, the bill has so far met with near-universal acclaim and welfare rolls have shrunk by 60 percent since it went into effect...
...again. And again. And again. By the end of the night he's throwing strikes and I'm nursing a sore shoulder and a purple pinkie finger. Then it dawns on me: Huang, who has won dance awards from Beijing to Lausanne, looks like a natural but behind the buoyant exuberance lies dogged determination and a willingness to practice and then practice some more...
...analysts from China, Japan, the U.S., Britain and Germany. For those convinced that a strong recovery in the U.S. is already under way, Stephen Roach, chief economist of Morgan Stanley, had a pitcher of cold water ready, pointing out that no economy had ever been able to maintain a buoyant recovery from a recession while running such an enormous deficit on the current account, and while household and corporate balance sheets are overloaded with historically-high levels of debt. The most frightening thing, perhaps, was this: it's only the U.S. that is likely to provide real growth...
Police at first tried to describe Bishop as a troubled loner. Yet Favreau said Charles "never complained about his home life," and teachers cast him as a buoyant student who denounced bin Laden in an essay. Favreau notes, however, that Charles dropped out of sight for long periods of time during the last holiday break, telling friends he was working on a "project." He also hinted they should watch the news for something big, reportedly telling his grandmother the day of the crash not to let his enemies attend his funeral. "I gotta think that project was his suicide," says...
...Police at first tried to describe Bishop as a troubled loner. Yet Favreau said Charles "never complained about his home life," and teachers cast him as a buoyant student who denounced bin Laden in an essay. Favreau notes, however, that Charles dropped out of sight for long periods of time during the last holiday break, telling friends he was working on a "project." He also hinted they should watch the news for something big, reportedly telling his grandmother the day of the crash not to let his enemies attend his funeral. "I gotta think that project was his suicide," says...