Search Details

Word: passing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...poor opinion of many of the actors that inhabit the financial sector, spreading the blame will only hasten the economy's decline. In order for the economy to recover, the market must recover. And in order for the market to recover, America's antipathy toward the financial system must pass. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the People Who Broke the Financial System Will Profit | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...Wall St.'s actions to task, he also suggested that the proposed bill from Congress would use the tax code to penalize a specific subset of people and would be contrary to good public policy. "Well, I think that - as a general proposition, you don't want to be passing laws that are just targeting a handful of individuals. You want to pass laws that have some broad applicability. And as a general proposition, I think you certainly don't want to use the tax code to punish people." He later went on to say, "Main Street has to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the People Who Broke the Financial System Will Profit | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...could have a name tape on his blouse that says "Jackson," but you know when you're out in Iraq, clothes can sometimes be hard to come by, so sometimes you'd get a buddy loaning his shirt to another buddy, and that guy could get shot and pass away, and then the name he's got on his shirt isn't necessarily the right one. So we would try to collect these clues and sort of hint at who they may be, but of course we couldn't do any DNA-testing. That happened back Stateside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Death at War — and at Home | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...power. In order to get to his boss, you had to pass the spider and he would tangle you up in his web. Everything had to go across his desk." -Nicholas Stuart, a Rudd biographer, on his role as a state government official. (The Guardian, November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

Except, of course, if they aren't. We now have ample evidence of how that comes to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix the Credit-Ratings Agencies | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | Next