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According to Swift’s spokesperson, Sarah Magazine, extra security precautions were being taken to assure safety at the polls...
...have promised to make available as much liquidity to fellow banks as is necessary to keep the system functioning, and many expect a half-point Fed cut to aid that effort in the coming days. But with the damage so close to home, giving investors and traders a few extra days to grasp the long-term impact of this disaster may be helpful in avoiding a panic-induced rupture...
...holds are different. His stellar career, inspiring personal history and reputation for integrity have endowed him with a unique moral stature. Americans?and the rest of the world?want to see him use that to great ends. From the start, his presence at Bush's side conferred an extra legitimacy on an untried President, supplied experience to temper gut instinct. Powell's rich store of respect and goodwill lent confidence to allies overseas that the essentials of policy in the world's superpower would remain stable?or if they did change, that a reassuring interlocutor would be leading the process...
...Which gets us to the second promise. The sagging economy and the first installment of Bush?s tax cut have so reduced tax revenues that the only surplus left for this year, and for the next couple, are the hundreds of billions of dollars extra collected for Social Security. Congress routinely dipped into Social Security surpluses when they began appearing in 1983 in order to pay for other government programs, and economists see no harm in doing that now, particularly as a recession hedge...
...made a blood oath never to touch the Social Security surplus and they fear it would be political suicide to do so now. But it may be impossible not to dip into the fund if Bush wants to spend more on education and still give the Pentagon $18.4 billion extra next year for a national missile defense. And it may be a good idea to dip into the fund to help stimulate the economy. But so far, the only politician to stick his head above the parapet and say times have changed and so should our minds is Sen. Pete...