Word: short
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when we're paying more than $4 for a gallon of gas and people are having trouble paying their mortgages. There's no doubt that today's economic troubles are real; people feel them deeply, and they deserve immediate attention. Creative capitalism isn't an answer to the relatively short-term ups and downs of the economic cycle. It's a response to the longer-term fact that too many people are missing out on a historic, century-long improvement in the quality of life. In many nations, life expectancy has grown dramatically in the past 100 years. More people...
...find it galling that Clinton's supporters keep demanding to be heard. They refuse to accept that history and the spirit of the times was against them. They lost because they had poor strategy and poor cohesion among the campaign leadership and failed to keep Bill Clinton on a short leash. If they think they will get a better deal from McCain in terms of moving a progressive agenda forward, they are sadly mistaken. Eugene M. Giudice, Chicago...
...core of our economic success is ... each American does better when all Americans do better.' 'Small businesses are the job engine of America, and I will make it easier for them to grow.' Obama sees a more active role for government in job creation. In the short term, he supports a second stimulus package in addition to the $168 billion one already passed. McCain portrays himself as a traditional fiscal conservative, emphasizing tax cuts and a balanced budget. He has not weighed in on a second stimulus plan. TAXES The 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts...
...Future research is surely going to focus on ways to replace those viruses with chemicals," he said. "And I think we'll see that in a short amount of time...
...kept a comparatively low profile despite a decade in Washington. He has been elected statewide five times in a state where his last name is something close to hard currency, though that is hardly a guarantee that he could help Obama carry the state. Bayh's also a little short on excitement, but that's the one area where Obama can carry the ticket all by himself...