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...whiff and instantly realized it couldn't taste as bad as the red from Cape Cod, which was the worst beverage of any kind I'd ever tasted--and I had to swallow barium for an upper-GI test. As I took a swig and swirled it around to gross out my friends, I thought it tasted like America. It was sweet, funky, simple, aggressive and not as bad as you'd been led to believe...
...American market system, purportedly a free market despite its flaws and gross inefficiencies, has opened this vulnerability. The oil suppliers may tighten the noose, but we tied it around our throats long ago. Hiding behind the wall of anonymity, the perpetrators profit and achieve their own ends, bringing down America in the process...
...what is a concerned voter to do? One good way to measure the fiscal responsibility of a candidate's plan is to compare the total amount of government revenue from taxes they plan to raise against the gross domestic product, which is the sum total of the nation's economic activity. According to congressional accountants, the Federal Government spent about 20% of the GDP in 2007, while taking in 18.8% of the GDP in taxes. The difference between spending and tax receipts - about $162 billion - was the budget deficit...
Step Brothers Directed by Adam McKay; rated R; out now So how did this farce, about two severely immature guys (Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly) forced to live together, earn its R rating? Actually, we can't say. Gross-out jokes aside, this is a minor entry in the grand comic tradition of grown men playing children and idiots destroying things...
...situation right now is a 1986 election issue.'' Paradoxically, while nearly 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs have disappeared since 1979, U.S. industrial output has not declined at all. Overall, the volume of manufacturing output has increased by 23% since 1982, and manufacturing still contributes roughly the same share of gross national product (around 22%) it has for the past 30 years. To critics, however, these seemingly encouraging figures conceal a worrisome ''hollowing out'' of U.S. manufacturing companies. As they see it, many American firms, while contributing their share to the GNP, have become reassembly plants for foreign parts and products...