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...stakes are high in this forecasting game since any misreading could cause the new Administration to stumble. Although Clinton won the White House largely by bashing Bush's feeble economic policies, some experts warn against trying to jump-start growth next year if business really is improving. "The worst thing they could do would be to stimulate the economy just as it seems to be growing all by itself," says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the Wall Street firm C.J. Lawrence. "That would create concerns about overheating the economy" and could reignite an inflation rate that...
With 18 seconds remaining in the third quarter and Harvard up 14-0, Yale's only weapon, tall junior tailback Keith Price, looked ready to jump-start the Eli's broken-down wishbone. He tore up the massive hole in the left side and drove up. Price pumped his long, lean legs, while Harvard junior James Ellis did what he's done all season: played catch-up and won. He clipped Price's knees and the junior stumbled onto the four yard line...
...first job will be to jump-start this economy," Braun told ABC News, in a statement many victorious candidates echoed last night...
...banks have plunged a record 8% since the beginning of 1991, to $594.2 billion. "What will create new jobs and new businesses? It certainly hasn't been lower interest rates," says Jay Goldinger, co-founder of Capital Insight, a securities firm in Beverly Hills, California. "Only one action can jump-start the economy. Banks must start lending again...
Roosevelt used a Hundred Days' congressional session, in which several pieces of regulatory and reparatory legislation were passed. To make isolationism effective, a leader must have the resolve to leave the romantic world of hegemonic superpowers and international summits in order to make a sincere attempt to jump-start his or her own nation...