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...Economists don't pin down easy, and with Alan Greenspan, of course, evasiveness an art. He buried Schumer in a haze of "dynamic model" talk that had just the slightest whiff of Reaganomics to it but came to nothing. When Sarbanes got through insulting Greenspan in other people's words, Greenspan curtly quoted his own stuff, the "cautionary note" kicker about government piggishness from his previous testimony. But certainly, if those surpluses were to disappear in a gold rush of discretionary spending, Greenspan admitted, his tax-cut arithmetic would be "mispositioned, if I may put it that...
...This is why the surpluses still have the whiff of fantasy about them - not because the White House and Congressional Budget Office's forecasters are too rosy with their economic-growth projections, but because they take congressional spending projections at their word. The advantage of taking money for a tax cut off the budgetary table in March is, well, that it's off the table. Let the taxpayers eat first, and let the ethanol subsidizers and reindeer researchers fight over the leftovers, instead of the other way around...
...next day when the U.S. Supreme Court proved Rove correct, at least for the short term, no one in Austin or in McLean, Va., where the Bush transition team has its headquarters, had the strength to celebrate. "We're too scarred for that," says an aide. They felt a whiff of excitement and boatloads of relief. Dick Cheney was at the movies when the news broke. An aide called from transition headquarters, and Cheney picked up the call in the dark theater. He was watching the new Meg Ryan thriller, Proof of Life...
...Harvard's best scoring chance of the period came on a delayed penalty, when Notman drew a cross-check from Brown winger Kathleen Kauth. On the play, Botterill had a clean shot at a loose puck just a yard outside the net, but a bad bounce caused her to whiff...
...underestimate the power of a few explosions. Investors have been worrying quietly about oil for months, but corporate earnings - related to oil, but which incorporate a larger set of worries - have been at center stage. But when rockets flew, this wasn't a solely economic headache. This had the whiff of war, spurring a particular kind of panic-selling analysts said they hadn't seen since Saddam stormed Kuwait...