Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would start at 6:30 and go through my Iraqi day,” Senor says. “Then as my day was winding down, Washington was just starting to wake up, and the U.S. press and the U.S. government and the British government had all sorts of needs of their...
...episode for the U.S. financial system as we’ve had” since the stock market crash of 1987, but he called the decision “appropriate.” Summers criticized current Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., for being too timid in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. While more caution could have helped avert the problem, Summers said, the same impulse can be destructive after the fact. Summers also attacked the White House, saying that the Bush administration has given “insufficient weight to the interests of the middle class...
...federal government are likely to amount to nearly $3 trillion in today’s money. Who will pay this enormous price tag? Because all the money spent has been borrowed, most of the costs have been deferred. Students who have paid too little attention today are going to wake up in a few years to find their tax rates hiked or their government entitlements curbed as the full price of what we have done is presented by our creditors overseas...
...possible, from the data available, to determine whether insurgent groups increased the overall number of attacks against American and Iraqi targets in the wake of public dissent and debate or simply changed the timing of those attacks,” Monten and Inyengar find...
...LINING Boeing's loss of the aerial-tanker contract to a partly foreign rival may show that defense spending is about more than hometown pork for U.S. companies. Critics say Boeing approached the contract bid with a sense of entitlement; in a global market, this may be a needed wake-up call...