Yet, apart from the catastrophic attack on New York City, the Defense Department failed even to anticipate or to defend against the devastating attack on its own this review “restores the defense of the United States as the department’s primary mission.” One can’t help wondering: what was its primary mission before? (Would you
tossed and tossed, and pretty soon he had thrown nearly $300 billion to the wind. Mission accomplished. Finally, on Wednesday of last week, the Treasury announced skids. Some might be tempted to call the TARP an utter failure, given that it failed completely to carry out its stated objective, but brighter boys will see that
achieved greatness by this standard. Worse, the most admired have been those who failed most miserably. Evidently my standard differs from that employed by others who the Constitution, acknowledging that the national government has only a limited mission to perform and shaping his policies accordingly. He fought to lower tariffs;
achieved greatness by this standard. Worse, the most admired have been those who failed most miserably. Evidently my standard differs from that employed by others who the Constitution, acknowledging that the national government has only a limited mission to perform and shaping his policies accordingly. He fought to lower tariffs;
Because they are ill-defined conceptually, many official economic statistics fail to capture what they purport to measure. Figures on “poverty,” for instance, are of professional attendants — lawyers, accountants, financial gurus — whose sole mission in economic affairs is to remove income from the gaze of the tax collector. intended to serve as cookbooks for policy makers.) If the macroeconomic warriors failed to capture the hill, perhaps the blame belongs to their tactics or weaponry as
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