Word: shovelers
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...lining up for a piece of the stimulus. States that embarked on raucous spending and tax-cutting sprees when they were flush are begging for bailouts now that they're broke. And politicians are dusting off their unfunded mobster museums, waterslides and other pet projects for rebranding as shovel-ready infrastructure investments. As Obama's aides scramble to assemble something effective and transformative as well as politically achievable, they acknowledge the tension between his desires for speed and reform. "We're living that tension every day," an adviser tells TIME...
That's why Charlie Rangel might be looking for a shovel these days. The flurries started last summer as a series of embarrassing revelations. Among them was the fact that Rangel was occupying four rent-controlled apartments simultaneously in upper Manhattan and that his tax returns - Rangel is the chairman of the tax-code-writing House Ways and Means Committee - were such a mess that he was hiring a "forensic auditor" to figure out why he had failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic. Adding to the tangle of questions...
...make a $25 million decision without doing the research. They put a lot of thought into where it’s going to go, what services it will provide,” Erwin said. “They do all of that homework before they put the shovel in the ground, and if it gets that far along, they’ll be able to withstand the scrutiny.” —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...hands on any of it. The 42-year-old Australian engineer went to the tropical island of Sulawesi in Indonesia's east five years ago to open a gold mine on a palm-studded hillock outside the provincial capital, Manado. He has yet to overturn one shovel of ore. A half-built processing plant sits idly alongside a dirt track. Among the only signs of activity to be spotted are in the picturesque bay nearby, where fishermen paddle wooden canoes. The mine's operator, Perth-based Archipelago Resources, has faced delays because of a political battle that has raged from...
...referee - or a nanny. As the network's ratings and billings have soared, so have tensions among the hosts - Olbermann, Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews. The trouble spilled on-air at last week's Democratic National Convention (Olbermann to Scarborough: "Jesus, Joe, why don't you get a shovel?"), provoking one "high-ranking MSNBC journalist" to tell Politico.com's Michael Calderone, "The situation at our channel is about to blow...