Word: spendthrifts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lived in California, you'd know that Connell can be a pain in the butt - especially to the rears of spendthrift public servants wasting taxpayer money. As the fiscal watchdog for the state, she uncovered more than $1 billion worth of Medi-Cal fraud in 1999 and more recently, refused to pick up $2,600 in expenses for takeout sushi and pizza ordered by state employees working late during the energy crisis. At the time CalPERS was considering JEDI II, Connell was the only one on the board with an investment banking background. An investment banker for a decade...
...makes Japanese tourists the most coveted guests the world over. Entire economies have sprung up around them, as in Hawaii, the No. 1 destination for Japanese visitors. Last year they spent $234 a day in the Aloha State, while their American counterparts parted with a measly $157. Without its spendthrift guests, Hawaii is feeling the pain. The 40% drop in Japanese tourists means $4 million a day less for the state economy?or more than $1 billion by year's end. Already the downturn has forced 12,000 residents onto unemployment lines. Things are so bad that Governor Ben Cayetano...
...Foreign governments and private institutions, suspicious of the spendthrift habits, mammoth bank accounts and princely villas that have become trademarks of nouveau riche Russians abroad, are beginning to close their doors and their borders to some of the richest. And many powerful Russian tycoons must think twice before boarding an outbound flight lest they share the fate of Pavel Borodin, the erstwhile Kremlin property manager and multimillionaire who was arrested last month in New York on an extradition request from Switzerland alleging involvement in money laundering...
...face he prefers to show is Stabenow's, in TV spots that define her as a spendthrift, turn-back-the-clock liberal. One offered her smiling at the center of a clock. As the hands turned backward, a list of her liberal "achievements" scrolled across the screen. All the same, Stabenow stayed close in the polls until August, when Abraham went after her attempt to identify herself as the champion of elderly voters unhappy with prescription-drug costs. Stabenow--who has twice bused seniors across the border to Canada, where they could buy cheaper medicines--has been promoting the Democratic...
...face he prefers to show is Stabenow's, in TV spots that define her as a spendthrift, turn-back-the-clock liberal. One offered her smiling at the center of a clock. As the hands turned backward, a list of her liberal "achievements" scrolled across the screen. All the same, Stabenow stayed close in the polls until August, when Abraham went after her attempt to identify herself as the champion of elderly voters unhappy with prescription-drug costs. Stabenow - who has twice bused seniors across the border to Canada, where they could buy cheaper medicines - has been promoting the Democratic...