In perhaps the broadest on-the-record denial from the White House, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling told CNN: "The notion that this president was not leading and making the tough choices all along is just dead wrong, and I say that as somebody who's been here every moment..
While the nation will not officially be considered in a recession until the downturn has continued for another quarter, most analysts are now preparing obituaries for what turned out to be the broadest and most enduring expansion on record.
Sometimes the end result of chemical spraying has been a tremendous upsurge of the very insect that the spraying was intended to control, as when black flies in Ontario became seventeen times as abundant after spraying as they had been before, and as when, in England, an outbreak of the cabbage aphid — an outbreak that had no parallel on record — followed a broad program of spraying.
Moreover, she said, independent prosecutors were judged not on a broad record but on their performance in a single case, which could lead prosecutors to protracted inquiries out of fear that if they uncovered nothing they would be accused of wasting time and money.
After 12 days of trading, the broader Standard & Poor's 500-stock isdex is off to its worst January on record.
The deflator, an indicator of broad price trends, stood at minus 2.8 percent, the biggest negative reading on record, in a sign deflation was hardly abating.
Their outreach is part of a broader Democratic push to win 10 battleground states through one of the most concerted get-out-the-vote efforts on record.
She said: "Broad money growth, the best indicator of overall monetary conditions in an economy, has slowed to its lowest rate on record in recent months.
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