Word: robert
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...Robert Rubin's been a lame duck for only one day -- could the economy be overheating already? Well, Thursday's round of economic reports from Washington certainly raised a few red flags. The Labor Department's Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.5 percent in April, up from March's rise of just 0.2 percent. And though retail sales for April rose only 0.1 percent, inflation hawks would have much preferred a drop -- considering that April was the ninth straight month that America's drunken-sailor consumers spent more than the month before. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says...
...boring old Washington with him). But -- and here's where the line between what Rubin actually did and what merely happened while he was minding the store gets even blurrier -- Rubin's footprints go deeper. By a strange confluence of historical eras, cultural shifts, personality and yes, good fortune, Robert Rubin, the 71st man to hold the traditionally unglamorous post of secretary of the United States Treasury, is going out a superstar...
...introduction to Miller's speech, Director of the Loeb Drama Center Robert S. Brustein called Miller "our theater's elder statesman...
...would like to have more mon- ey in the budget for affordable housing," saidCouncillor Katherine Triantafillou. The budget isunder the jurisdiction of City Manager Robert W.Healy, however, and the council can only negatefunding allocations...
...introduction to Miller's speech, Director of the Loeb Drama Center Robert S. Brustein called Miller "our theater's elder statesman...