Word: droppings
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...Depression. Kuznets himself warned that "the welfare of a nation can ... scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income." Seventy-five years on, GDP feels like an idea whose time has finally passed. "GDP measures, in a certain sense, how much stuff we can produce that we can drop on an enemy," Alan Krueger - now a top-ranked economist in the Obama Administration - said at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) World Forum in 2007. "It's natural in the post?Cold War era that we would turn to other measures of how well our society...
...stimulus (deficit) was $1.4 trillion for the just-ended fiscal year, up about $1 trillion from the year before. The stimulus bill accounted for just $200 billion of that increase, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Bailing out banks and other financial firms cost $245 billion. A $419 billion drop in tax receipts (due mainly to recession, not legislation) without an offsetting spending cut was the biggest factor in the deficit's rise. Then there are the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve put into asset purchases and other programs - surely the biggest stimulus...
...Past Year" (number 1 was Swine Flu, FYI). We get that cutbacks don't exactly make Harvard look good, but how did they translate that into a number like 20 percent? Regardless, the site ranked Harvard as the university with the third best media image this year, a drop from the number one spot it held during the site's two previous incarnations of the rankings...
...technical jargon and inherent speciality of these fields can make them seem as boring as accounting and as intimidating as rocket science. Recently, in an effort to make their areas of interest more relevant and accessible for their peers, the Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe (STAHR) and A Drop in the Ocean (ADITO), a non-profit microfinance organization run by Harvard students, have similarly adapted their interests for artistic purposes...
After hearing a woman scream in the treatment room, Paul M. Langone—a security guard not affiliated with the clinic but who happened to be nearby—burst into the room and shot Carciero three times after the psychiatric patient refused to drop his weapon...