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Other critics have long pointed to authorities - which are not subject to constitutional limits on debt or the legislative budget process - as a prime source of long-term debt that has helped drain the state's finances.
A truism about the Sundance Film Festival, adopted offspring of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, is that it's long been too many things to too many people--while not admitting to anything.
To some, the thought of a law-and-order conservative facing prison time for speeding through a stop sign last August and killing a Minnesota motorcyclist is justice of sorts for what they've long perceived to be his insensitive attitude toward them.
Fair or not, Janklow's long run as governor -- 16 years before heading to Congress -- also made him a target of criticism by Indians who believe their lives and fortunes have not improved through the years.
Students choose from a long list of titles, and teachers are supposed to ensure the books are not too easy or not too challenging.
Librarian Betty Brackens, who administers the program, said she had long thought the school could benefit from Accelerated Reader.
Rest assured, patient reader, that “The Confessions of Max Tivoli” is long on longing and short on lasting satisfactions, as full of broken hearts as it is of dazzling local, time-specific color.
Like all people in exalted office who reflect on their long and diligent labours on behalf of the public weal, Mr. Greenspan is concerned about his legacy, how posterity will treat his reign at the Federal Reserve.
Particularly since the chances seem to be pretty good that those remaining "imbalances" that issued directly from the bubble and its aftermath -- huge holes in our accounts at home and abroad, to name two -- are apt to be around long enough to help usher in the next recession.
And it's also a sure-fire way, as Mr. Greenspan has demonstrated for 16 very long years, to keep your job.
What's left is a salty film that can remain on the road for 12 to 24 hours before a storm, as long as there is no rain to wash it away.
And the closely arranged seating, customized for knee-to-knee coziness, means even first-time patrons don't stay strangers for long.
Legendary pianist Cecil Taylor has long been a regular and, before new management took over last year, you could count on bartenders to regale you with stories about the leonine composer.
When we look back on things at the end of December, 49 long weeks from now, "Post to Wire," released this week by Richmond Fontaine, just may be the best Northwest album of 2004.
She had risen at some dispiriting, dawn-chorus hour, made a long, jet-lagged trek to BBC Television Centre - and then the general practitioner of death hanged himself, all the programme's guest slots were cancelled, and Joan was bumped off the show for 24 hours.