No doubt many more Americans were employed in shuttling Americans like Kennedy back and forth from Hollywood way back when, but far from an economic positive, this waste of labor was an economic weight thankfully erased eventually by airplanes.
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Leaving the Fed to do the dirty work will only mean that a bad economic situation is made worse as more and more Americans become dependent on taxpayer-funded programs like food stamps (already a reality) and fewer and fewer contribute to the state and federal tax base.
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In sum, though the Americans would like to have more help from overseas, they do not want it at the price of a resolution that would restrict the autonomy of their administration.
Polls have long indicated that Hispanic Americans care more about domestic policy issues like education, the economy and health care, but security seems to have trumped domestic issues.
It's a look designed to appeal to a global palate: "Americans are much more conservative, much like with fashion, " says Tony Ingrao, the designer who is creating the interiors.
In 2006, a study from the Center for Responsible Lending found that African-Americans are something like 30 percent more likely to be sold a subprime loan than white borrowers with similar credit histories and income.
The battle of the bulge seems more like the Cold War: Billions are spent by Americans looking to get thinner, but countervailing forces, such as more time spent in cars driving past more fast-food restaurants from more distant suburbs to increasingly suburban office parks cancel out the effort.
Americans, perhaps even more than Europeans, like to dwell on their cultural links with Greece.
But Americans don't like them any more, and their value has collapsed.
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Though more Americans are catching TV shows on mobile devices like tablets in bedrooms, kitchens, even bathrooms, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, people still want a big set in a big space like the living room for watching movies, sports or special events together.
When talking politics, however, the French, like the Americans, tend to go for the more formal notion of justice.
Asian entrepreneurs also like to be more involved in managing their money than European or Americans are, and are not shy about calling the trading floor directly.
That Americans still vote at very low rates is a compliment for revealing that Americans have other, more important things on their minds like working and taking care of their families.
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"Here in New York we know firsthand the devastation and pain caused by natural disasters, and in difficult times like these we, more than ever, stand with our fellow Americans, " Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday.
More sales will require orders and deliveries, and Americans do not typically like to wait.
Americans like to believe that, with most things, more is better.
Extremely friendly countries like the UK and Poland, much less somewhere like Russia, are ever more bemused by the anachronistic way in which Americans seem to view the world.
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It seems like an odd conclusion to draw that violent video games impact Americans more than citizens of other nations.
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Consumer credit already expanded much more than expected last month as Americans took on debt to pay for things like job and school.
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"The private Michael Jackson was like a lot of Americans in the 2000s, spending a lot more than he was making, " Putnam told the jury after describing the singer's lavish Neverland Ranch, his art collection and other spending.
Americans with the biggest incomes devoted much more of their spending to things like payments for life insurance.
More specifically, I would like Peyton Manning to do something for all the hard working Americans that have been there to support him and the NFL, thereby allowing Peyton to earn a great and well-deserved living.
When Abraham Lincoln struggled to preserve our young union, more than 100, 000 Irish and Irish Americans joined the cause, with units like the Irish Brigade charging into battle -- green flags with gold harp waving alongside our star-spangled banner.
Americans might not always like government, but they dislike being broke even more.
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To help address the inequities, our plan gives Americans who purchase insurance on their own a tax deduction, treating them more like those who get insurance through a job or who are self-employed.
Okay, I like to hear that. (Laughter.) That means giving more Americans the chance to learn the skills that businesses are looking for right now.
Mr. ESQUIVEL: Well, it's been a lot of e-mails from my magazine in terms of election saying that they need to hear more about other candidates like when they're talking about experience, they say, why all the Americans are forgetting that they have two senators who have been a long time in Congress, it's Senator Joe Biden and Senator Christopher Dodd.
Ironically, Americans appear to agree more on climate-change science than other high-profile scientific controversies like the safety of genetically-modified organisms.
And microbiomes in vitamin-hungry places like Malawi and rural Venezuela turn out more of these chemicals than do those in the guts of North Americans.
My suspicion is that most Americans are not quite ready to become their own heaters, any more than modern farm families like having farm animals live with them--although they, too, generate warmth.
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