Word: plugged
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...hung a red, white and blue curtain over the sign. The ceremony not only marked what would have been his father's 87th birthday, but also an historic moment in U.S. history - the national debt was shrinking. Because the clock wasn't built to count backwards, Durst pulled the plug. Just two years later, following the burst of the dot-com bubble and the economic fall-out of 9/11, he turned it back on. The billboard has ticked forward ever since...
...credit to buy and manufacturers won't finance dealer inventories. Holiday-shopping forecasts are getting bleaker. Declining home values mean more homeowners could default, further driving down property values. All that crimps tax revenues, and states such as Pennsylvania and New York are now trying to plug gaping holes in their budgets, while California is looking for $7 billion from Washington in part to make payroll, since short-term borrowing is unavailable. Two out of three city finance officers are reporting that they're less able to make up budget shortfalls this year. Municipalities are facing skyrocketing borrowing costs--some...
...MILLION Tax breaks for those who buy plug-in electric cars...
...government knows it's facing a problem. To plug this hole, Delhi has been spending more money to build infrastructure and get children to school, with this year's national budget earmarking $8.2 billion for education - an increase of 20% over last year. Programs like the mid-day meal scheme and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, which aims to get all children between 6 and 14 into school, have been successful in getting over 95% children into primary education, but dropout rates remain high. According to a government survey for the 2005-06 academic year, over 70% of 6-10 year-olds...
...Obama and McCain have vowed to do both. Obama has promised an ambitious plan to end Middle East and Venezuela oil imports in 10 years, partly by putting 1 million plug-in hybrid cars on American roads by 2015 and giving a $7,000 tax credit to each person who buys an electric car. McCain has offered a $5,000 tax credit for people buying pure, zero-emission electric cars (GM's Volt would not qualify), with a sliding scale of tax breaks for those buying low-emission vehicles. McCain says he would also give a whopping $300 million prize...