How could an electric bike fit in a package no larger than one designed for a large microwave?
While the stimulus package no doubt provided some support for jobs, is was not well designed, not focused, and not targeted well to create jobs.
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He told us all about what satellite packages were available, including a 24-hour package that no one had ever bought.
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"Strong academics have to be a part of the package, no question, " said David Albert, a spokesman with the New York State School Boards Association.
While the relief bill is obviously necessary, taxpayers should be rightfully disappointed that the package contains no provisions requiring stronger planning measures to protect against more powerful future storms.
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But if you imagined pony rides in the backyard, that same exact package (no matter how amazing the toy inside really is) is bound to be the biggest disappointment of your young life.
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Although Congress' just-enacted Katrina tax-relief package lets victims make penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts and retirement plans such as 401(k) plans, the package made no provision for emergency withdrawals from college savings plans.
In his weekly broadcast on August 16th he promised a stimulus package but gave no indication of how he would pay for it.
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If you're looking to get the long and short of it, here it is: those seeking great battery life in a relatively affordable package need look no further, but performance junkies should definitely hunt elsewhere.
"To maintain a credible FX peg, the government would have to put forward a credible stabilization package, and there is still no news of such a package, " he wrote.
The market has to sniff the stimulus package that is coming no later than January.
They choose well-known brands to avoid disappointment, and are attracted by package deals that promise no hidden costs.
There was no rescue package as there was for Bear Stearns or for Fannie Mae or for Freddie Mac.
Truckers are also protesting against an omission from the liberalisation package, which contained no plans to cut motorway tolls.
In his Budget speech on Wednesday, Gordon Brown announced the "premium package coolers" would no longer taxed like wine but would now be classed at the higher, spirits rate.
Yet no visible progress was made in breaking the impasse between Argentina and the IMF, which has meant that, after more than nine months, no rescue package for the beleaguered economy is in place.
Package shrink is, by no means, a new tactic to either the consumer or manufacturer.
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The plan makes several major concessions to Democratic concerns, though lawmakers said they were no guarantee the package would pass more quickly as a result.
On Wednesday, America, China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany announced that they would no longer tolerate Iran's refusal to give a yes or a no to a package of incentives and potential punishments they hoped would stop Iran's enrichment of uranium.
However, there has been no massive government stimulus package like the one launched after the global financial crisis in 2008, mainly because that move led to a sharp rise in consumer prices.
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And is it still the case that you in no way want that package opened up and changed in any way so that it would have to go back to the Senate?
As consumers move aggressively toward dependence on cell phones, in some cases disconnecting landline service entirely, the irony is that telephony today often has long distance bundled right into a nationwide package for pennies a minute or no additional charge at all.
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But when they start characterizing this as pork without acknowledging that there are no earmarks in this package -- something again that was pretty rare over the last eight years -- then you get a feeling that maybe we're playing politics instead of actually trying to solve problems for the American people.
Perks like a car, mobile phone, or health club membership are no longer part of the package.
No element of the pay package--salary, stocks, options, loans, company car, subsidized housing and all other perks and indulgences--should be omitted.
Although the Obama administration promised the stimulus package would create jobs, there is no evidence that putting up these road signs created any jobs.
Nearly all Antarctic tourism is sea-based, meaning that your transportation, meals and accommodation are combined in one neat package (your ship), so that no infrastructure has to be built ashore in Antarctica's delicate environment.
One leadership aide said Obey, D-Wisconsin, got ahead of himself when he told CNN on Tuesday evening that his committee was considering another stimulus package, though he had cautioned there was no timeline for moving it.
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One leadership aide said House Appropriations Chairman David Obey of Wisconsin got ahead of himself when he told CNN Tuesday evening that his committee was considering another stimulus package, though he had cautioned there was no timeline for moving it.
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