This loya jirga should not be misread as the clear-cut happy ending of a successful American military intervention.
Some Democrats in Congress are sanguine about the cuts, happy to see military spending, viewed as too big anyway, take the brunt.
Unless the deficit-and-tax-cut-happy Congress begins to put the brakes on now, future Americans will most likely be caught in an impossible crunch of historically higher taxes and plummeting health care and retirement benefits, Mr. Holtz-Eakin concluded in his forecast.
Glen Heath Jr. of Slant Magazine gave it two out of four stars, criticizing the film's "cut-happy style" and plot, but lauding the action sequences and Chu's direction as "poetry in high-speed motion".
At his weekly press conference, the GOP's "Crybaby in Chief" lashed out at a reporter for daring to question the role his party's cut-happy orthodoxy played in Tuesday's Amtrak accident.
Glen Chapple, their captain and commander in chief did not cut a happy figure as he strode out of the dressing room alone last night, but Usman Khawaja, the man whose dismissal triggered the collapse from 205-2 to 266 all out, has faith in his new team's ability to shift the momentum in this match once more.
Wall Street has almost always greeted suggestions of broad new tax cuts with happy cries.
The approach of the show to its momentous topic can be gauged partly through one of its invitations: a thin, scrumptious-looking slice of Austrian beerwurst, vacuum-sealed in plastic, with the word "HAPPY" cut out of it.
If you never make the cut for lunch, happy hour, or project meetings over coffee, your coworkers may be trying to send you a message.
Written in the key of D major in alla breve cut common time, "Happy Working Song" is structured around a "lilting", Broadway musical-inspired melody.
