Word: walker
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...likely see such huge numbers leading the networks' evening newscasts because deficit talk is akin to Washington wonk speak. But Dave Walker, former Comptroller General of the U.S. and now President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, is out to change that and bring the big picture of deficit woe to America's attention...
...kinds of warning indicators going off, and people are asleep,"said Walker, said, Walker, whose New York think tank seeks to promote awareness about the debt problem. (Walker stars in the August-released feature documentary, I.O.U.S.A., which focuses on the nation's credit binge...
...even the current deficit, as big as it is, that causes so much concern, says Walker. The deficit merely represents the amount that government spending exceeds its revenues in a given year. A far bigger concern is the national debt - the total of what we've cumulatively borrowed to finance those yearly deficits. Sometime around 2020, according to projections offered by Walker's foundation, the U.S. debt will be equal to or greater than annual gross domestic product - a situation not seen since 1946 at the end of World War II. Worsening the picture is the fact that much...
...lesbian MIT graduate student who attended the meeting out of personal and academic interest. “There are complaints everywhere, even in such a safe community as Cambridge.” The meeting opened with remarks from Mayor E. Denise Simmons and her chief of staff, Jeff Walker. Simmons is the nation’s first black lesbian female mayor. Former Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, who attended last night’s meeting, is also the first openly gay black mayor in the country. Both Simmons and Walker praised Cambridge as one of the most...
...easier to identify whom the film would like to be about. That's George Herbert Walker Bush, the forgotten-but-not-gone 41 to his son's 43. As played by the 6 ft. 5 in. (2m) James Cromwell, Poppy Bush looms over W. (and W.) as a commanding, commandeering figure. According to the film, he's the master manipulator who sprang Dubya from jail after a rowdy Yale prank, "took care of" a woman his son didn't want to marry and "pulled strings" to get the boy into Harvard Business School. He hates the damage W. has done...