51. The yen has been boosted by speculation Japan will forego deficit-cutting in favor of more spending to lift the economy out of a six-year slump. 52. There, the government raised interest rates and slashed spending to protect the currency. 53. Therefore, candidates are not permitted to spend up to the limit in every state and must choose where they want to spend the allowable state maximum. 54. They decided to scrap the entertainment and donate the money they would have spent to the Red Cross. 55. They may have spent themselves to a stalemate in Washington. 56. They should declare a moratorium on collection of all federal gasoline taxes until the highway trust fund is spent down to a modest cushion. 57. They attribute much of the slowing of consumer spending to this diminution of the wealth effect through the spring and early summer. 58. Thurburn has never revealed how much he spent to launch FlashNet. 59. While a president now can suggest recissions in spending to Congress, he must veto all or none of an entire bill. 60. While investors clearly expect a spate of new spending to lift the economy, it is not clear where they expect that spending to originate. |