The Democrat Ami Bera has benefited from more than $3.8 million in steady outside spending since Labor Day, making this contest one of the most expensive in the nation.
The Washington area's households and businesses have cut back in recent years, too, but their frugality has been offset by steady government spending.
Despite the episode — maybe because of it — attendance is steady and spending at the park is up this year, according to the team's general manager, Scott Brown.
Helping drive growth will be steady consumer spending and companies investing in their businesses to fund expansion.
Investors looking to put cash to work in stocks but fearful of an American earnings bust next year should look at China, where continued gross domestic product expansion and steady consumer spending will help to sustain profits, according to Neil Shen, a managing partner at Sequoia Capital China.
Bulls figuring Obama a one-termer, that Gubernatorial results are harbinger of impending Democratic defeat and steadier defense spending, will have to recalibrate in the face of economic recovery.
The agreement does put the brakes on what had been a steady growth in spending by federal agencies.
Merck said yesterday that it planned to hold research spending steady in 2005 even though its profits would decline slightly because of the Vioxx recall.
West London, of course, is where the influence of new Russian money on football has long been at its most visible, but there has been a steady rise in spending back in the motherland, too.
