There was a huge glass ceiling or, really, actually it was a concrete ceiling, for women drummers.
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Everyone talks about the glass ceiling and having to knock on the glass ceiling to get ahead.
The glass ceiling in Japan is known as the bamboo ceiling, and is even harder to break.
Floor-to-ceiling (a very high ceiling, too) windows frame the Strip, receding into the distance like a neon-lit comic book .
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The debt ceiling is not a new issue, and raising the debt ceiling has actually become a common practice by Congress.
"It traditionally has been more difficult for women to break the executive glass ceiling than the legislative glass ceiling, " Collins said.
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Practically speaking, a ceiling that is raised automatically is no ceiling at all.
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The huge main ballroom area features the ornately detailed painted ceiling and floor-to-ceiling windows that look out to the a snowy landscape (complete with always-falling snow).
President Obama concluded in his press conference that Congress has two options: either grant him the authority to raise the debt ceiling or raise the debt ceiling themselves.
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The size of the raise in the debt ceiling in the near-term (a larger raise in the ceiling buys the politicians more time to create a longer-term deficit reduction plan).
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The Senate and House are expected to vote today on a throw together strategy to avoid a default on the debt ceiling ( more on what the debt ceiling is here).
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He takes the leaders of Congress of both parties at their word when they say that we will not default, Congress will raise the debt ceiling, will take measures so that the debt ceiling is raised.
Since the adjustment of the covered earnings ceiling depends on nominal wage growth, if inflation takes off or if real wages grow even more rapidly, the covered earnings ceiling will grow at an even faster pace.
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Ieuan Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru Group Leader) asked whether the Assembly Government will be arguing for a 1.24 per cent ceiling in negotiations on continuing European funding, rather than the Treasury campaigning for a 1 per cent ceiling.
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Rather, we could safely abolish the debt ceiling and spare ourselves at least one source of political gamesmanship, since we have 105 (soon to be 106) pieces of hard evidence the debt ceiling does zippo to control spending.
Again, the debt ceiling -- the willingness to go through a debt ceiling showdown every three or six months I think makes clear that their concern about -- the stated concern about uncertainty is suspicious to say the least.
We also believe quite strongly that we have to raise the debt ceiling -- there is no option to doing that -- and that that will happen, because the economic impacts of not voting to raise the debt ceiling would be calamitous.
The Republicans could defer all discussions with regard to the debt ceiling, which may be hit as early as January, to the next Congress by increasing the debt ceiling by the amount necessary to accommodate three or six additional months of deficit spending.
We have obviously expressed our concern about the folly of suggesting that we don't need to raise the debt ceiling and the harm that would be caused if there were a perception created that Congress would not eventually raise the debt ceiling in time.
One is raising the debt ceiling -- this is a problem that was manufactured here in Washington, because every single one of the leaders over there have voted for raising the debt ceiling in the past -- and has typically been a difficult, but routine process.
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Given that Washington has yet to agree on a resolution for dealing with the debt ceiling and the uneven pace of economic growth, it would not surprise me to see more choppiness in the market, especially as we approach the August deadline for raising the federal debt ceiling.
Therefore, we are pursuing, as well -- even as we pursue the bigger prize, we are working with Congress to ensure that there is a mechanism by which we simply raise the debt ceiling, or raise the debt ceiling and do something much smaller than the grand bargain.
What Chuck and I and I think many people are curious about is this new, adamant desire on your part not to negotiate, when that seems to conflict with the entire history in the modern era of American Presidents and the debt ceiling, and your own history on the debt ceiling.
If an agreement between the two political parties on spending cuts cannot be reached in that timeframe, the Debt Ceiling debate would then return to the front burner as more debt would thus be needed (potentially involving another increase to the Debt Ceiling) to fund the existing Federal balance sheet imbalance.
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And my point, as you know, I know, is that the -- raising the ceiling, the debt ceiling, is so important because it involves the faith and credit of the United States government as the most powerful economy in the world -- the economy to which the whole world looks for stability.
There was general market optimism on the debt front late Thursday after the European news and also hopes for a settlement in politically charged debt-ceiling talks in the U.S. However, any expectations for an quick resolution to the debt-ceiling issue have dissipated, while concerns about Europe persist, with the euro back on the defensive.
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