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...life. All she had to worry about was winning. For a decade, Zou followed his advice, winning the 48-kg national weightlifting title in 1990 when she was 19 years old and pocketing four other national championships. But when she retired in 1993, Zou discovered that the coach's side of the bargain wasn't going to be met. After three years of menial jobs in the women's weightlifting team's kitchen, she was asked to leave...
...thought he showed a tough side from the time he was with the U.S. [Hockey National Team] Development Program, and we didn’t know if his foot speed was good enough,” said Predators Assistant General Manager Paul Fenton. “We saw he had greatly improved. There was never a question about his work ethic, character and attitude. He’s a tremendous kid with the kind of character and size we’re looking for on the walls...
According to an online blog post by Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, Mankiw had previously criticized certain supply-side arguments—namely, that lowering tax rates could actually generate more tax revenue—and then reversed his opinion while working in Washington...
Mankiw clarified on his own online blog that he opposed only the supply-side argument for tax cuts but that he thought the 2003 Bush tax cuts were justified for other reasons—though he himself was not actually an advisor to the President when those tax cuts were implemented...
...Mankiw privately advised Bush that the tax cuts would not be self-financing. But Mankiw announced in late 2006 that he had signed on as an advisor to the presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and the Republican candidate seems to be employing these very same supply-side arguments...