Word: thanked
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...suppose the one thing is, thank God for Larry Summers, in the following sense: when monetary policy has lost all traction, then your only hope is fiscal policy. The danger with fiscal policy is that they'd do too little, because we've spent the last umpteen years saying we've got to keep our deficit under control. This is not the time to worry about that. Until [Summers] came along, I was struck by how modest all of the stimulus packages everyone was talking about were. He's sort of the [John] Maynard Keynes of today. He says...
...Washington was no exception. Obama's task was to look like a man in charge, reaching out to Republican and Democratic members of Congress, followed by photo ops and statements that could be read as closely as the oracles. Would the Republican House minority leader, John Boehner, thank Obama for making a courtesy call or praise their "productive discussions"? Would Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell demand for Republicans a bigger seat at the legislative drafting table or simply welcome the new President? (See pictures of Barack Obama when he was in college...
...thank you. i am a movie snob and very critical of everything I see, but I thought Speed Racer was simply brilliant entertainment from top to bottom. It's been at least a decade since I've seen a movie more than once in the theater, but I saw Speed Racer three times. It was sad to see it flop and be critically savaged, but I appreciate - and wholeheartedly agree with - your adding it to the "Top 10 Movies" of 2008. Denny Zartman, Atlanta...
Michael Hartnett: And by the way, 2009 is the year of the bull, the Chinese year of the bull. Thank God 2008 wasn't the year of the bull. People would never believe in China again...
...About three days after the now infamous press conference, two New Yorkers launched a website called Thank You for Throwing Your Shoe to give other frustrated critics of the war a metaphorical chance to raise a shoe at President Bush. The site encourages visitors to add their own images to a simple gallery of photographs showing people holding up their potential footwear projectiles to protest the Iraq war. One of the site's creators, reached by phone, did not want to divulge his name - "This is a photo project, not a political campaign, and we value our privacy" - but explained...