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...military-industrial complex can design a long-range missile that travels into space and is guided by light from the stars, it has a good chance of developing new technologies that could help governments meet emission targets without making draconian cuts to energy usage. At least that's the hope. (See pictures of how climate change has affected Europe...
...load up on those securities - the same ones that are now, in many cases, near-worthless and clogging up the financial system. Plenty of people at the ratings agencies were aware of trouble brewing. In December 2006, a manager at Standard & Poor's e-mailed a colleague: "Let's hope we are all retired and wealthy before this house of cards falters...
...Congress and the White House now face a limited set of options, especially as they struggle to maintain the president's priorities, which include more spending for education, health care and energy reform. They can pare back the spending plans, propose further tax increases, or hope that the CBO got the projections wrong and the economy does not deteriorate any faster than already expected. "I think it's easy to exaggerate fluctuations in the deficit projections, which are driven by small changes in underlying assumptions," Orszag told reporters. "I also recognize that despite that, the CBO numbers are going...
...People say they are stupid, but we have nothing else to look forward to." I watched as the English-speaking waiter loitering a little too close to our table grinned. But it wasn't a smile of condescension from a government informant. It was a smile, I think, of hope...
...These guys are learning right now, and we hope that these are just the sort of lessons we need to do well in the Ivies,” said Fish...