Word: peterson
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Oeigoetz made it interesting with her third goal. This cut the lead to 9-7 with 5:38 to play. Carin Peterson had a chance to bring the Terps within one with 2:40 left, but Dermody stuffed her penalty shot once again. Felsen completed her hat trick to round out the scoring...
...Deir el Balah refugee camp, soldiers yesterday confiscated identification documents from most of the men in the camp and told them they would have to pay their electricity and water bills before they would be returned, said U.N. official Eric Peterson, an administrator of the camps...
Even more cruelly ironic is the tax proposal of the Peterson plan. Peterson advises raising taxes only in a manner that would discourage consumption and encourage savings and investment. In the tradition of Reagan and his supplyside philosophies, this would shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor, assuming that the rich will invest it in ways that build the economy...
Just like the gurus of Reaganomics, Peterson asserts that lifting the tax burden from the shoulders of the rich discourages consumption and promotes savings and investment. Really? Despite the generous taxation and spending policies of the Reagan administration, real fixed investment by corporations has increased only 2.6 percent per year under Reagan, compared to 7.1 percent under Jimmy Carter...
...intolerable that the working class should have to pay such an inordinate amount of the cost of Reagan's extravagance. While multi-millioniares like Pete Peterson may righteously demand self-sacrifice, they have no concept of what such policy means to the tens of millions of Americans who have already suffered economically under Reagan...