Word: takethings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greenspan's message: lawmakers shouldn't get cocky about budget deals and decreasing deficits; the juggernaut economy deserves the credit ? and what it giveth, it can surely taketh away. He urged John Kasich and the rest of the committee to start stockpiling budget surpluses, because dark clouds are always gathering. "The law of supply and demand has not been repealed," Greenspan read. "If labor demand continues to outpace sustainable increases in supply, the question is surely when, not whether, labor costs will escalate more rapidly." Translation: inflation still lurks in the heart of the boom. And the Fed is watching...
...this a vote of confidence or something darker? "What John Malone giveth, John Malone can taketh away," says Porter Bibb, a media-investment banker at Ladenburg, Thalmann who has been a frequent critic of Levin's. Bibb believes that Malone saw the merger as an avenue to power. "Levin is now a puppet on Malone's strings. Malone is never going to be CEO of Time Warner. He'll probably never sit on the board. But he wanted to control Levin, and now he does." A scenario even has Malone divesting some cable interests, getting back his voting stock...
...Undergraduate Council giveth with one hand, but it taketh away with the other. Last week, they reinstituted the term-bill check-box that lets students keep most of their annual contribution to the council. But why didn't they allow students to withhold the whole $20? Why do we still have to write to Dean Epps for the last...
...said that "life is unfair." Well. Even later, one thought that in Kennedy's case, it might have been a good idea, for the sake of clarity, to rinse off any residue of self-pity and change "Life is unfair" to something like "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...
...outside and pummeled a tree until his small fists were torn and bleeding. He went to bed and sobbed for an hour. His mother came in, salved and bandaged his hands, then explained the futility of uncontrolled anger: "He that conquereth his own soul is greater than he who taketh a city." Much later Ike claimed that was "one of the most valuable moments of my life." Five times in 1954 when he was President, there were emotional appeals from his advisers to strike militarily at the troublemakers in Asia. Each time he went off to think, and each time...