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During the 2000 presidential election, then billed as one of the most important elections in decades, the nation had to decide which candidate it wanted to spend a large budget surplus and appoint new justices to an aging Supreme Court. Four years later, the choice facing American voters is much more complicated. The budget issues sill loom large, and the Supreme Court, unaltered in its membership, is only getting older. But now the United States has a war on terror to fight and an international reputation to recover. In a world Americans now know is hostile and dangerous...
Children’s Hospital has managed to pull out of deficits accrued during the late 1990s—last year, it had a surplus of $28.7 million, and in 2002, $15 million...
Leland has a weakness for phrasemaking and surplus rhetoric but a real gift for connecting centuries-old developments in American life to the endlessly evolving postures we call "hip." In the sensual ecstasies of Walt Whitman and the individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He maps the spiritual connections between the bleak machismo of West Coast--detective fiction and the desperado postures of L.A. gangsta rap. He points out the lines that connect hip-hop, with its audience of white suburban boys, to 19th century minstrel shows, in which whites in blackface strutted racial clich?...
...judged - Latham argued the focus should be on the local region, while Howard urged Australians not to "cut and run" by choosing Labor's plan to withdraw Australia's relatively small military contingent from Iraq - attention soon drifted back to interest rates. And when the forecast budget surplus for 2004-05 doubled to $A5.3 billion, both parties suddenly had the money for extravagant promises...
...many ARS researchers, the future is all about waste, particularly as an alternative to petroleum. The feather project, for example, can replace some of the fossil fuels used in plastics. Likewise, a surplus of soybeans inspired researchers to develop SoyScreen as an alternative to petroleum-based sunscreens. At ARS's flagship facility in Beltsville, Md., biodiesel, derived from vegetable oil, powers fleets of tractors and lawn mowers for the farms and even heats some of the buildings. Indeed, petroleum is prohibited in the carpeting (which is instead held together by soy-based urethane). The only permissible hand soaps and cleaning...