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White House: Obama seeks hike in domestic spending
Published by qlewa, at 19:44, under The America
May7
Barack Obama's budget guru says the president's plan for $17 billion in program cuts is not chump change but that a lot more needs to be done to dig the government out of its fiscal hole.
Budget Director Peter Orszag told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program Thursday that it's long past time to get rid of the Education Department's attache in Paris, for example.
American Notes
Published by qlewa, at 22:38, under The America
Oct25
In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared
the following paragraph: "Two small rooms connected by a tiny
hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the
literary hero of the present hour, 'the man who came from
American Economic Crisis
Published by qlewa, at 22:23, under The America
Oct25
By Cynthia Kirk
IN THE NEWS -August 10, 2002: Latin American Economic Crisis
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.
The International Monetary Fund has agreed to provide an additional thirty-thousand-million dollars in loans to
Brazil. I-M-F Managing Director Horst Koehler announced the agreement Wednesday. Experts say the loan is
designed to ease growing concerns about Brazil’s financial markets.
