Washington

Romney says Congress should wait to act on economy
Plain Dealer
What's wrong with this picture that a candidate has to spend that much money for a job where the salary is $400000 plus $150000 for expenses? Does that make ANY sense to you? it comes down to the lesser of the two evils, or as I like to call it the

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College students spending less time studying
Boston Globe
Consider George Mason, Virginia's largest public university and a microcosm of modern academia. Some students care for dependents. Many commute to class. Seventy percent of seniors hold off-campus jobs. George Mason students spend 14 hours, on average,

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POLITICS: Freshmen vowing change spent millions of tax dollars on mailings
Delmarva Daily Times
WASHINGTON -- Republican freshmen who came to Congress last year promising to transform Washington's free-spending culture are no different from most other lawmakers in at least one respect: They mailed out millions of taxpayer-funded fliers and

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In the Philippines, the Problem Is Too Much Money
Bloomberg
Yet spend an hour with Tetangco and it sure does seem like his job is to hold a giant mop. What he's cleaning up is all the money flooding his way from Washington, Tokyo and Frankfurt. And it's proving quite a feat not only for Tetangco in Manila,

States looking to new tolls to pay for highways
NBC 29 News
The government has announced a settlement requiring BP North America Inc. to spend more than $400 million to reduce pollution at an Indiana refinery.Full Story The government has announced a settlement requiring BP North America Inc. to spend more than

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