Word: sperlingã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wednesday, Feb. 15, Summers says he arrived at what he calls the most difficult decision of his life. Over the preceding week, he had withdrawn into a closed circle, including economist Gene B. Sperling??a friend from the Clinton administration—and Elisa New, the FAS English professor whom he married in December. He remained in close touch with Corporation members...
According to reports sent over a HUPD radio channel, when Sperling??described as a white male with dreadlocks—was apprehended, he repeatedly provided the wrong information. He first gave a social security number that came back to a woman, and then gave a number that would have identified him as a man named Frank, before providing his actual information...
Hubbard countered Sperling??s charges, asserting that the economy needed “a shot in the arm” to create the growth necessary to fund social programs and the war in Iraq...
Noting that he had never seen evidence suggesting that one-shot tax cuts—an alternative proposed by Sperling??would be helpful in even the short term, Hubbard asserted that short-term deficits would be acceptable...
Much of the discussion was devoted to Sperling??s contention that the very wealthy would receive the direct benefit of the tax cuts and Hubbard’s rejoinder that the burden of taxation would be spread out to everyone in the long term no matter what the immediate distribution...