Word: soundness
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...spending provisions in the various plans? Again, there has been an Alice in Wonderland quality to much of the criticism, as if Keynes were a fraud and government spending couldn't possibly create jobs - especially spending on biomedical research or education about STDs or any other programs that sound vaguely liberal and exotic. But biomedical research jobs are real jobs. So are jobs beautifying the Mall and warning teenagers about herpes. So are jobs building and engineering rail lines for Amtrak, regardless of the company's current profitability. Granted, some spending proposals would work faster and better than others...
...Hamas claim, which seems basically sound to me, is that Israel was mainly responsible for its ending: Hamas suppressed almost, but not all rocket fire; Israel retaliated for the residuum by refusing to open the borders, so that Gazan misery continued unabated or worsened, and then carried out an armed incursion in November 2008. When Hamas refused to renew the truce and recommenced rocket fire, Israel invaded...
...forwards made their presence known from the start, scoring three of Harvard’s first four baskets. With the score tied after five minutes of play, Crimson freshman Brogan Berry made a layup to give Harvard a lead that it would keep until the sound of the final buzzer.A three-and-a-half minute span close to the end of the first half saw the Crimson go on an 11-0 run and take a 19-point lead.“We put on a clinic at both ends of the floor,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney...
...naps, it's kind of like a very intimate little love affair we've got going. But around Groundhog Day he's most ornery cause it's breeding season and he is trying to assert his dominance so that other males will stay away. He makes an awful screeching sound and then he scent marks my house and I have to go and clean it up. He's looking for a wife. I had one all set up and then we had the current economic situation and the exhibit was put on hold and I had to pass...
...NTSB clash this week, Stacey Friedman will fly from her home in Sacramento to attend the safety hearings in Washington. She will tell people that the helicopter her sister was riding in crashed into the Puget Sound in the middle of a heavy storm, that her sister's body was recovered in pieces. She probably will not cry. She has been telling the same story for years. "The industry is supposed to save people," Freidman says, "but actually it's killing people all the time...