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...This was a routine call, certainly not run of the mill," said Cambridge Fire Department Captain Bill Braithwaite. "We bring all of our stuff out because we don't know what's going...
...sort of economic life support. Credit remains scarce, especially for small businesses. Unemployment hovers above 10%. The commercial real estate market is crashing, the foreclosure crisis is growing and many state and local governments are teetering on insolvency. It is a situation that has led many economists to call for another infusion of government spending, along the lines of what Obama proposed...
...between paying down our deficits on the one hand, and investing in job creation and economic growth on the other," he said. "This is a false choice." But as pointed as the speech was at times, it was also notable for what it did not say. Obama didn't call his new package of government spending a stimulus, which it clearly was. He didn't say how much it would cost. He gave few details of how it would be paid for, and he declined to explain exactly when it should go into effect...
...briefing call with reporters before the speech, a senior Administration official said that even though the unspent and returned TARP funds could not be used directly to fund the new stimulus efforts, they still created an environment in which there was "more fiscal room" for further spending. "There's other offsets over a 10-year period that one could consider as well," the official said, without providing any specifics...
When Vladimir Putin took to the airwaves on Dec. 3 for his annual call-in show on state-run television, the questions and Putin's answers appeared natural and unprompted. But as with many high-profile political campaigns in the West, little is left to chance at the upper echelons of Russia's leadership, especially when the Prime Minister's image makers want to send a message to the public. Which is why, says Andrei Kryukov, a student who asked Putin about his plans for the 2012 elections, he had been steered by Putin's press service and coached...