Word: floor
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...necessary economic corrective. "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate," Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised President Herbert Hoover. "It will purge the rottenness out of the system." Late last year, you could hear a few people arguing this case on CNBC and even on the floor of the House of Representatives. But after Lehman's failure, no one at Treasury or the Fed talked that way. Instead, the consensus among the policymakers who mattered, in the U.S. and overseas, was that the panic had to be stopped at any cost...
...Spee is indeed the place to get trashed—and party like a rock star. But whether you come dressed up in costume or dressed down in jeans, the Spee is the place to shed your inhibitions. Shimmy off the calories from the bar by hitting the dance floor. After all, the Spee is the place for locking lips and limbs. With the Spee’s bursting-at-the-seams dance floor and blaring tunes, Harvard students venture to the Spee to party, and indeed, the Spee knows how to deliver. So if you’re looking...
...remember was hearing a pop and then I fell to the floor,” Evans said. “It sounded like someone just took my bone and tried to break it in half...
...House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer echoed this sentiment, proposing that Wilson be censured should he not apologize on the floor of the House of Representatives, as if it were the House that Wilson had wronged rather than the president to whom Wilson had already apologized. “I would like to see Mr. Wilson come to the floor and apologize to the House,” Hoyer told reporters...
...observers see Dodd and the Administration working to craft a bill close enough to Shelby's liking so that even if it gets rammed through the committee with Democratic base-pleasing measures he won't vote for, the bill can be reworked to gain his support on the Senate floor. That would give Dodd the political cover he needs for his 2010 re-election campaign, but would also give the Administration the Republican support they need for a solid legislative win. And it would give Shelby his landmark piece of legislation...