AT THE very last moment, and just before his 50th birthday this week, Barack Obama got the deal that raised thedebt ceilingby between $2.1 trillion and $2.4 trillion and so prevented the United States from going intodefaulton his watch. But this does not mean that the roof is not still...
In the “old” days, the early spring was known as the starving time. It was when the food in storage ran out or rotted, wild game was scarce and thin, and it was still too early to grow something fresh. We have for the present tamed the starving time with planning, canning and re...
Unfortunately, while behaving erratically from time to time can be endearing, doing so repeatedly is a sign of illness. Though a deal to raise the debt ceiling was done at the last minute, America will have to go through this all over again in the new year. Crisis was averted thanks to...
But it is so constructed that Misnar is still able, from afar, by severing a key rope, to bring the heavy slab of the pavilion's ceiling crashing down on the usurpers. Within the novel the pavilion stands for that dream world... J Glavin - 《Victorian Studies》 被引量: 2发表: 2003...
War. Natural disasters. Congressional infighting. Any of these can wreck the public perception of a presidential administration. Presidents are also often judged -- fairly or not -- by how the stock market performs during their time in office.By examinin
MADDOW: And we`ll then do this all again for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Because the debt ceiling is something invented in World War I to appease isolationists from that conflict. Maybe it`s time we got over it O`DONNELL: We`ll see what happens. ...
While they were wrapped in the shadows and veiled beneath secrecy, the king knew very well that a crimson mark—the sign of the blood oath—was being etched into their very flesh. Though it must have felt a lifetime, it ended within a matter of seconds, and the cries dulled ...
But this justice, with its accompanying holiness or helpfulness, being even by the best men denied in its trial time, is by the mass of men hated wherever it appears: so that, when the choice was one day fairly put to them, they denied the Helpful One and the Just2; and desired a ...
Debt increase +$500 billion Party control White House House Senate Ceiling at the time:$16.7 trillion *The limit was waived for about four months, allowing $500 billion in new debt. How it went down:Boehner promised a “whale of a fight” as debt limit talks heated up that summer. It ...