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...ugly? Greece is already scrambling to lower its deficit of nearly 13% to the E.U. ceiling of 3% by the end of 2012 under a European Commission plan to be endorsed on Wednesday. Spain is similarly promising to slash its deficit of 11.4% to just 3% by 2013, although the country - which is still reeling from the recession, with unemployment of nearly 19% - has been vague about how it will do that beyond proposing $69 billion in cost-cutting measures over the next four years. Last month, French officials somehow managed to sound proud when they announced that France...
...over $10 billion annually - coupled with his call for all E.U. countries to continue pumping their economies with stimulus spending to foster growth. Even Germany, the E.U.'s most disciplined member, will see its 2009 deficit of nearly 4% rise to almost 5% in 2010 under the government's plan to cut taxes while increasing spending...
...unmanned ships. There are no entirely unworthy objectives in that list (with the possible exception of the ISS), but there's also no clear way of getting humans back into space after 2010, once the shuttles are mothballed. What's more, there's not a thing in the plan that would get your heart to race. Building spaceships just for the public thrill of it may seem like a luxury we can't afford, but the new direction has even deeper problems. Here...
...CEB—created in 2006 to take over event planning from the UC—had been allotted $200,000 annually to plan five or six major events...
...tracks which best exemplify this change populate the middle of the album. The brilliant “Plan A” retains some of the catchy, endearing elements—anchored by lead singer Gareth’s nasal vocals—that made Los Campesinos! likeable to begin with, but channels them into a two-minute blast of chaotic noise; a mash of throat-straining screeches and crackling guitar. “Plan A” is a statement—this is not the same band that, only two years ago, winnowed their way into the hearts...