There was a time, back in the 1950s and 1960s, when Keynesian stimulus packages were seen as costless.
Monday's $2 billion cash injection, a resumption of a $15 billion aid package, was seen as a signal that Russia believed Yanukovich had a plan to end the protests and had dropped any idea of bringing opposition leaders into government.
The first installment of what eventually became a five-part package was seen by an astounding 45 million viewers (the same number, noted John J. O'Connor, television critic for The New York Times, who sat down every week to watch "Happy Days," the hit sitcom starring a young actor named Ron Howard).
According to Shuja Nawaz, an analyst of the Pakistani military, the aid package was seen in Pakistan as a sign of American support, while in Afghanistan the Obama strategy, with its talk of lowered expectations for Afghan democracy, raised fears of reduced commitment.
package is seen as useful for stabilization, which will lure other investors once it's secured".
But Republican lawmakers would prefer to end it than to let the Obama stimulus package be seen as helpful.
The cash, part of a bigger rescue package, is seen as a stopgap measure giving the airline, which has been losing money, a few months to find a strategic investor to help keep it flying.
Plain packaging is seen by campaigners as the next step in discouraging young people from taking up smoking.
The package is seen as a training tool for water practitioners, policymakers and students, and as a tool for rapid preliminary environmental flow assessment.
Just days before his announcement, Mr. Fukuda unveiled a $17 billion stimulus package that was seen by economists as too small to boost Japan's stalling $4.7 trillion economy, which many economists agree is heading into a recession caused by higher commodity prices and a slowdown in exports to the United States and China.
