Word: spendthrift
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...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...
...keeping a tight lid on spending to lower inflation. At the time, advocates of the single currency argued that it would give a boost to Europe's economy and help make it more competitive. Now Europe has entered a period of "deconvergence," in the jargon of some economists, as spendthrift habits creep back in. A recent European Commission report notes that while Belgium, Finland and Ireland have balanced their budgets, four members--Germany, Greece, France and Italy--have allowed their budget deficits to grow beyond the 3% limit laid down in the rules of the single currency. The overall debt...
...uncomfortable in his skin." The anti-Kerry campaign will be a little bit of both, but the real emotional traction will involve character more than ideology. Oh, Kerry will be called a Massachusetts liberal; assorted Kerry votes and sound bites will be summoned to prove that he is a spendthrift pacifist. But "liberal" is an ancient epithet whose power has waned in recent years, and Kerry's votes to limit defense spending will be forgiven if he seems solid, moderate and strong--as he has through the primary season...