Word: rosier
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...largest problem with all the plans on the table is that only a fraction of the stimulus would arrive before July 2004. That means billions in tax cuts, and deficits, will be coming our way over the rest of the decade, when American economic prospects will be a lot rosier. Economic stimulus is supposed to be temporary. But it looks like the United States will have to endure a package of permanent measures: accelerating the implementation of the 2001 tax cut and slashing the dividend tax. As a result, any stimulus will not only be too late...
Even as WorldCom's future kept looking rosier to Grubman (see chart), its balance sheet, its "now," was imploding. At the end of 1999, the company claimed $10.3 billion in current assets and $30.3 billion in current liabilities and long-term debt. By year-end 2001, current assets had shrunk to $9.2 billion, while current and long-term debt had swollen to $39.2 billion. Graham liked companies whose current assets were at least twice their current liabilities. This measure, called the current ratio, tells you the working-capital cushion a company has at its disposal. Graham also believed that long...
...situation seemed even rosier when Hendricks’ drive to shallow left appeared to load the bases with two outs for classmate Mickey Kropf...
...slowdown. "It's remarkable we have a surplus at all, given the yearlong slowdown," argues OMB director Mitch Daniels. The rest of the shortfall can be traced to Bush's military pay raise, the tax rebate and corporate-tax receipts that Bush delayed to make next year's figures rosier...
...That rosier scenario would provide some temporary political relief for the White House; it won't change the President's approach. The Bush-Cheney plan is certain to focus on increasing energy production. After all, you won't find any tree huggers in the White House: just a proud Texan who sank a few wells in the oil patch and his deputy, Cheney, a Texas transplant who made millions as CEO of Halliburton. Those ties give critics plenty to latch onto as the President and the Veep stump for achieving greater capacity by opening a pristine Alaskan preserve...