Word: franked
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...Springbok tour comments were a sign of political naïvety, then that's all right too, says Frank Williams, who owns an agricultural contracting and cartage business in Cambridge in the Waikato region of the North Island. "Helen Clark is a fantastic politician. You can never take that away from her," says Williams. "She's very good at the political game. But maybe we've had enough of that." Key's learning fast, though - or perhaps his memory's good. Asked in the debate what it meant to be rich, Clark waffled, while Key sounded genuine talking about...
...promised - is remote as long as the economy is struggling. After all, what's the point of raising corporate taxes when companies aren't profitable or raising capital-gains taxes when stock prices and real estate values are plummeting? Even a gung-ho tax raiser like Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts acknowledges that the economic climate is wrong. "Not now," Frank said recently of tax hikes...
...money - nearly $8 billion in the first half of that year. This year financial firms are deeply in the red. They lost more than $15 billion in the first half of the year alone, and that was before the market's big plunge in the past few months. Says Frank Bruconi, chief economist in the New York City comptroller's office: "Had the federal government not stepped in with a bailout plan and other moves, the pay and the employment situation on Wall Street would be much worse...
...Harvard 100,” a list of Harvard’s most influential alumni. In contrast, the final issue—and the only one ever produced by Manhattan Media—contained an article on the sons of New York Times columnist Frank Rich, one of whom attended Harvard, and another on Harvard connections to the Bush administration’s Iraq War machine. “We were expanding the focus and trying to make it less about Harvard,” said Blum, who previously edited New York Press, a New York City weekly also owned...
...Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 this week. (Click here for a review.) Billing itself as the "first major U.S. exhibition to reconsider Abstract Expressionism in over 20 years," the show takes a look at 50 works by such artists as Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Ad Reinhardt and Frank Stella through the lens of two contemporary art critics, Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, as they dueled over the meaning of changes in the art world. Through Jan. 11, 2009. 1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park...