Word: shovelful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...announcement yesterday morning to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 said that the stimulus package will give the state $6 to $9 billion over the next two years. Throughout the state, towns and cities have submitted thousands of shovel-ready projects—immediately actionable proposals—in the hopes of receiving funding from the stimulus package, and Cambridge was no different. According to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley, Cambridge has a large list of projects that require funding—including street work, sewer reconstruction, and a renovation...
...economic free fall is causing budget difficulties in other states, but California faces the deepest crisis. With the budget talks stalled, Schwarzenegger sent layoff notices to 10,000 state workers and ordered a halt to the last 275 state-funded public-works projects still under construction. Call it shovel-ready in reverse...
...Still, further delay was increasingly difficult to justify. With the country's economy slowing, an upgrade of cellular networks is a way to stimulate growth. "These are exactly the kind of shovel-ready projects that [China] can start work on today, where the money you spend has an immediate impact on jobs," says the executive. Beijing officials have said they expect spending to upgrade networks will add between 0.5 and 1 percentage point to the country's GDP growth...
...reboot. The more I think about the stimulus supertanker, the more questionable it seems. Not substantively: most of the money in it is justifiable. But a case can be made that it should have been divided into discrete packages: a short-term booster with tax cuts, state aid and shovel-ready public works; then, an education bill, a health-care bill, a green- and high-tech-economy bill. In almost all these areas, there are reforms that need to be attached to the money. The additional money for Medicaid should be part of a comprehensive health- insurance plan that creates...
...Dating. If you're ready to plunge back into the dating pool, and you're an avid skier, try Whitney's Inn in Jackson, NH. They're playing cupid with Black Mountain's annual Chairlift Speed Dating event. You get a ticket to the event, and dinner at the Shovel Handle Pub with your new friend and breakfast the next morning. $449 for two nights.357 Black Mountain Rd, Jackson...