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...lifted up several notches in the presidential pantheon by a soaring performance in his last, unofficial State of the Union Address Sept. 20, didn't hit any new heights Tuesday night - but then again, Bush isn't an underdog anymore. And the mission of this speech wasn't to impress, merely to remind the nation how impressive he's been...
...what's 2002 look like? Figure on this spring being almost indistinguishable from this winter, no matter what the economic indicators say - particularly as unemployment continues to rise (because labor costs are always the last ones invited back to companies hoping to impress Wall Street with their bottom lines, high unemployment generally outlasts recessions). Summer will likely see GDP growth creep back up above zero, and by fall, third-quarter profits and production may start to look rosy again. At which point companies will start hiring again, and consumers will feel secure again, and by the beginning of the following...
...course, this particular reviewer - the White House press office - may be a little biased. Hoping to impress upon reporters how busy the boss has been since Sept. 11, the White House issued a 25-page report Thursday titled "The Global War on Terrorism: The First 100 Days." Leaving no victory unsung, the report details everything the U.S. has accomplished so far, from freezing $33 million in terrorist assets at home (coalition partners have frozen another $33 million abroad) to air-dropping 2,423,700 food ration packets to Afghan civilians. And only one mention that "much dangerous and difficult work...
...drunken nude circumnavigation of the Quad will impress those fine honeys...
...judgment. “It’s not hidden that the system here is more difficult. It’s a question of what incentives are set up by the system. The incentive is to do research—things you need to do to get tenure. You impress senior colleagues by impressing a nationwide audience...