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...tentativeness of our [budgetary] projections" and that some of the conclusions on tax receipts are "little more than informed guesses." He then ended his talk with a cautionary note that "with today's euphoria surrounding the surpluses, it is not difficult to imagine the hard-earned fiscal restraint developed in recent years rapidly dissipating. We need to resist those policies that could readily resurrect the deficits of the past and the fiscal imbalances that followed in their wake...
Comfortably sexy, occasionally angry at the opacity of the young Bergman (played with tight, menacing restraint by Krister Henriksson), she's still amazed at how their self-absorption, matched by the self-destructive, almost 19th century romanticism of her conductor-husband (Thomas Hanzon), leads from the merely regrettable to the definitively tragic...
...cautionary note. With today's euphoria surrounding the surpluses, it is not difficult to imagine the hard-earned fiscal restraint developed in recent years rapidly dissipating. We need to resist those policies that could readily resurrect the deficits of the past and the fiscal imbalances that followed in their wake...
...make some improvements to baseball, just don't impose a salary cap. For even in the absence of any substantive solutions, you should never underestimate the power of owners' greed as a restraint on limitless spending. As rich as the Yankees are, George Steinbrenner will forever be more inclined to pocket some profits before he spends everything he has on player payroll. Don't believe me? Why, then, did Georgie Porgie not go after Manny this winter? If New York wanted him, he was theirs for the taking. And it's not as if the Yankees couldn't afford both...
That kind of restraint is particularly important in one aspect of "Someone's Watching Over You": a spoken middle eight. If you're like me, you look forward to most of these sappy soliloquies just about as much as seeing the bottom line on your 1040 form (or getting another peek at "Grand Ole Opry" emcee "Whispering" Bill Anderson's overdone face-lift). But George carries it off with aplomb - adding just the right touch of disbelief to the dollops of sincerity...