Word: paces
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...president's team of financial experts has predicted that the economy will grow by 3.2% next year, 4% in 2010, and 4.6% in 2012. It would be hard to find a well-regarded forecast which is that optimistic. The IMF has a much darker view of the pace of economic recovery. Even the organization that produces the Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey, known for only talking to the most optimistic experts, has estimated economic expansion far short of those used in the Budget...
...Crimson got comfortable with their early lead, however, and Columbia capitalized. With 4:26 left in the first half, the Lions had taken control of the pace of the game. Harvard suddenly appeared disoriented and its lead dwindled to three points at halftime...
...right shelf past Tigers goaltender Zane Kalemba’s shoulder to tie the game up at 1-1. The Crimson survived a penalty-ridden first period that also saw them outshot 17-8 by Princeton and was better able to dictate the game’s pace in the second. “Sometimes the penalties hinder your ability to get something going offensively, and sometimes they’re a result of spending too much time in your zone and the other team carrying the play,” Donato said. “But I thought after...
...figure out which side had a better claim to truth, Pooley argues that reporters fell into what he calls the stenography model of journalism, simply reporting both sides with equal weight. The problem is, the two sides weren't equal. The skeptics' models tended to assume, quietly, that the pace of technological advance for renewable energy would be sluggish - significantly raising the costs of trying to cap carbon emissions. The models from the green side - led by the Environmental Defense Fund - tended to be fairer, projecting a range of possible economic impacts from cap-and-trade. Increasingly, mainstream economists...
Vice President Biden attempted to define middle-class Americans as people who would find it difficult to miss more than two paychecks, and he wasn't far off; with wage increases failing to keep pace with inflation, about 21% of middle-class Americans have spent themselves to the limit. Personal bankruptcies rose by a third last year and mortgage defaults - well, they're moving beyond subprime borrowers and hitting those with previously high credit scores. On Feb. 27, Biden and eight members of his task force, including Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, will meet...