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...municipalities, it's been good, but it raises some political-economy questions," says Vincent Reinhart, a resident scholar at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and a former top Federal Reserve economist. "This might encourage even more expansion of government borrowing...
...Build America Bonds are a big subsidy that is costly to the federal government," says Michael Ettlinger, a vice president for economic policy at the liberal think tank Center for American Progress. "At some point we may say this is a subsidy we can't afford, but for now this is a great thing...
...power must come from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectricity, in which it is already among the world's top producers. That figure jumps to 8% for 2020. "The top leadership, they are all engineers," says Julian Wong, an analyst with the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. "They look at how the U.S. has grown by being a technological leader. China wants to do the same. They've seen the low-carbon sector...
Smith is at her parodic peak when depicting the characters’ cultural misunderstandings, and their casual racism. In a flashback where the pair are lost in a tank, waiting out a war, Samad and Archie’s talk inevitably turns to girls, specifically Samad’s unborn betrothed. This amuses Archie. “‘Where I come from,’ said Archie, ‘a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her.’ ‘Where you come from it is customary to boil...
...when we meet them at the café." The group is still treated as something of a novelty in Nepalese society: on May 5, the Kathmandu Post published a front-page photo of a group of Somalis acting as bodyguards in a local movie. Dressed in jeans and black tank tops, they were toting toy guns to protect the lead actress of the soon-to-be-released film...