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... would say that, in the short run, if you cut taxes -- if you raise taxes and cut spending during a recession, you're going to make the economy worse. So, the only argument for it is the one that he made, that there's no other alternative. But they do ...
... a declinist. He views America as one of equals around the world. We're not the same as Portugal; we're not the same as Argentina. GWEN IFILL: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich also joined the chorus. NEWT GINGRICH, (R) presidential candidate: The Obama administration is an anti-jobs, anti ...
... an effective way. There's a way of solving this problem that doesn't require any big radical changes. What it does require is everybody make some sacrifices. And we make these changes in a balanced way," the president said. "So far at least in the conversations that I've ...
... per thousand to 37 parts per thousand. “So there’s a very small range of variation of salinity,” Lagerloef said. “That means we have to make a very, very precise measurement with this radiometer.” More than a year ago, the European Space Agency launched a satellite called Soil Moisture and ...
... while they may not be as pretty to watch as the -- as the legendary teams of yore, they will probably be more difficult to beat. Argentina has, you know, a huge layer of melodrama cursing through the team. They have the M&M boys, Lionel Messi, the world's ...
... state of relationships between the United States and Latin America ... from the border with Mexico, through the Caribbean, clear down to the Southern Cone of Argentina and Chile. The changes in the last two decades have been remarkable. The countries of Latin America labored in the murky shadows of the ...
... filled entirely with setbacks. After the inauguration of Uruguay's new president, Jose Mujica, the two held fruitful talks. In Buenos Aires, she pleased the Argentineans by urging talks to ease the standoff over Britain's drilling for oil near the Falkland Islands. And she and her offers of American ...
GWEN IFILL: Right. PASCALE BONNEFOY: They are gradually traveling. Between today and tomorrow, there's going to be about 7,000. GWEN IFILL: Have we seen signs of international aid yet? PASCALE BONNEFOY: Argentina just sent generators, some field tent hospitals, and water purifiers, and some doctors as well. That ...
In an election overshadowed by the country's recent political upheaval, Hondurans voted on Sunday to make conservative rancher Porfirio Lobo their next president.
In other news, four more American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan over the last 24 hours, and prospects for January elections in Iraq dimmed.
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