Word: spendthrift
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...you’re rallying behind a candidate who’s lagging in the polls, a primary race this long and costly can be extremely discouraging. Idealistic college students are especially likely to resent the attention paid to spendthrift “establishment” candidates if they’d rather see Republican grassroots candidate Ron Paul or former Senator Mike Gravel in office. But even the Dennis Kuciniches of the world have received considerably more attention than third parties’ candidates, who represent some of the most vital forces for change in American politics. Many students...
...considering Harvard’s resources and the importance of education in general, it is a problem that should be addressed aggressively, and not just here but across the entire country. In the meantime, maybe the real issue is that some people want to impose personal, moralistic ideals of spendthrift on everyone-else. And, to me, right or wrong, this hardly seems like the duty of the financial aid office. Robert G. King ’09-’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Winthrop House...
...important for you to set a good example in that regard - lest future directors and producers throw your spendthrift ways in your face evermore? No. That would be rude. Everyone has his or her own style of working. Clint Eastwood is one of my role models in that regard and I don't think he does it for any reason other than impatience and the belief that after five or six takes of a scene it gets stale. In my experience, actors do their best work earlier in the process than in the 30th or 40th take. It just came...
...certainly didn't accomplish this by cutting spending--federal expenditures are up 19% since 2004, to a projected $2.7 trillion in fiscal 2007 (on the whole, this has been the most spendthrift Administration since Lyndon Johnson's). The deficit is shrinking, instead, because tax receipts have risen almost twice that fast. The President has offered a simple explanation for this welcome bounty: A strong economy, spurred by tax cuts, has driven up incomes and thus revenue. "Low taxes mean economic vitality," he said in February, "which means more tax revenues...
Almost from the time they were created 30 years ago, socially responsible mutual funds were routinely dismissed as the ill-conceived love child of trust-funded tree huggers and their spendthrift financial advisers. The conventional wisdom was that they didn't make much money...