Word: nationalization
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Both Lin and Skinner agreed that the current Crimson squad has improved upon the group that pulled off last year’s upset, which made headlines all over the nation...
...Republicans can't argue with the still precarious position of the nation's economy. The recession has officially ended, but the country remains on a sort of economic life support. Credit remains scarce, especially for small businesses. Unemployment hovers above 10%. The commercial real estate market is crashing, the foreclosure crisis is growing and many state and local governments are teetering on insolvency. It is a situation that has led many economists to call for another infusion of government spending, along the lines of what Obama proposed...
...speech was certainly very general," says Rob Puentes, an expert on infrastructure investment at Brookings, who was still trying to work out on Tuesday afternoon what Obama had meant hours earlier when he called for a "boost in investment in the nation's infrastructure...
...support. "Prime Minister Putin said he doesn't rule out this possibility [of seeking re-election], and I also say I don't rule it out," Medvedev said. "We will be able to agree how not to elbow each other, but to make a reasonable decision for the nation," he told a press conference in Rome, where he had traveled to meet the Pope...
...vote. Instead, he could use the next few years to pass messy reforms, which would then be associated not with his reign but with Medvedev's. One of these is a constitutional amendment that is expected to pass this month; announced in Medvedev's first state-of-the-nation address last year, it would extend the presidential term from four to six years and would go into effect, of course, only after the next election. This would allow the next President to hold the post until...