Word: perring
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...first act. The nude scene was Hair's most notorious thumb in the eye of bourgeois inhibitions, though not all the actors were quite ready for the statement. Some were willing to disrobe, and some weren't; as an incentive, the producers offered a $1.50 bonus per show to any cast member who bared...
...experts. As always, he was fixated on cutting little things, the so-called earmarks that our legislators put in to provide funds for museums commemorating the harmonica and to build bridges to nowhere. A worthy crusade, a hardy McCain perennial, but one that would net only about $20 billion per year. Meanwhile, McCain was also proposing to extend the Bush tax cuts and add others, including a significant corporate-tax-rate cut, which would subtract about $300 billion. "McCain has set a responsible goal," said Bob Bixby of the deficit-obsessed Concord Coalition, "but he has no plausible...
...Obama's path certainly has risks. As conservatives always - rightly - warn, government isn't nearly as efficient as the market in figuring out the most effective new technologies. Spending money on infrastructure may prove inflationary given the current size of the deficit - although $21 billion per year doesn't seem all that much after an Administration that spent $10 billion per month in Iraq. "You can argue that there's a need for short-term deficit spending," says one of Obama's economic advisers, "but in the end, he's going to have to get back to fiscal responsibility." Ultimately...
...budget. His claim to pay for the things he proposes rests on loaves-and-fishes premises, especially the prospect of a Congress mesmerized into acquiescence on controversial issues like raising taxes to Clinton-era levels and closing corporate loopholes. But Obama's economic proposals - especially the $21 billion per year he wants to spend on alternative energy and infrastructure projects - represent an acknowledgment that the economic conversation has to change, that the old order faileth...
...been logging a lot of phone time with Gore. But Obama has changed the emphasis a bit to promote "green collar" job development, like programs to retrofit public buildings to conserve energy. Obama also has a new take on traditional infrastructure spending, designed to limit cronyism: a $6 billion-per-year federal infrastructure bank, where loans to states and localities would have to be approved by a bipartisan board of governors appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress...