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...cost of this tax cut will come home to roost in the out-years. Government will have to borrow to spend or add new taxes to get out of the mess brought about by brainless political inertia. RAND KNOX San Rafael, Calif...
...really imaginative and creative,” Rogoff says. Together, the two introduced the inflation index as a measure of the country’s economic health and engineered “mundane and archaic ways of raising money, reducing debt and lowering interest costs. They really ruled the roost in the Clinton administration...
...successful first book on dating, The Rules, a whole industry has sprung up around their method for "meeting and marrying Mr. Right." Their accumulated wisdom on the topic of marriage involves urging wom- en to be "cheerleaders" for their husbands and "when it comes to sex, husbands rule the roost," meaning they should control its frequency. In real life, Fein is getting divorced from her husband of 16 years. Despite evidence in her own life to the contrary, "I still 100% believe in 'the rules,'" Fein e-mailed...
Speaking from his roost in a rafter of the Forbidden City, the bird demanded that the Lampoon endorse the "One Ibis" policy before negotiations for reunification could begin. Thresky said he would return from China peacefully when the magazine removes the impostor ibis currently on top of the castle and publicly acknowledges his royal sovereignty, he said...
...kick in the ass...a real Blues Brothers type of scenario: people throwing stuff, getting fired in the middle of gigs. I had an interesting conversation with a guy in Eureka, which is just ten miles from the Canadian border. It's the kind of place where bald eagles roost on trees...