Word: franks
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...government gives money away to stimulate the economy, it should target "people who can't afford to save it ... that's why Obama is pushing a permanent $500-per-person credit on payroll taxes for every worker making less than $200,000 a year." Was that sarcasm? Frank Humphreys, DUBLIN...
Families who subsist on food stamps and live at or below the poverty level can't afford supplements, and there are many such families. According to Dr. Frank Greer, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition, 55% of infants born in the U.S. are eligible for the national Women, Infants and Children feeding program, which provides food for low-income mothers and their children up to age 5. But because the program is food-based, it does not include vitamin and mineral supplements...
...Frank Capra’s 1939 classic, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” a hapless governor upends his state’s political machine by appointing Jefferson Smith, the naive, all-American head of the Boy Rangers, to a vacancy in the United States Senate. Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, wins the admiration of his colleagues when he successfully refutes false corruption charges against him through an impassioned filibuster...
...with the Lords, but have failed to declare those interests during debates. Peers seem uncertain about what is permitted and what isn't. Lord Martin O'Neill of Clackmannan, who serves as president of an engineering contractors group, withdrew an amendment to a construction bill last week. "To be frank, I didn't really think about it too much," he told The Sunday Times. "Then I read at the weekend the expose and thought, God, I shouldn't be doing this.'"(Read "Lords and Loans...
...fallout inside the Catholic hierarchy could be more lasting. Regensburg was a question of a speech largely directed toward the outside world; and while some still criticize the poorly chosen language, others believe it gave much needed impetus to a more frank discussion about Islam. It was, in any case, the "professor Pope" playing to his strengths...