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Best forecaster? (Off The News).


The Bush (the younger) years have hardly been pleasant for Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill Paul O'Neill may refer to:
  • Paul O'Neill (baseball player), a former Major League Baseball player and current broadcaster
  • Paul O'Neill (cabinet member), United States businessman and government official
. Arriving in town with the best of pedigrees--successful stints at the highest levels both in business (Alcoa) and government (OMB OMB
abbr.
Office of Management and Budget

Noun 1. OMB - the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget
Office of Management and Budget
 during the Ford administration)--great things were expected but hopes were dashed.

Now Treasury supporters of the Secretary argue that his difficulties--often stemming from a too highly opinionated o·pin·ion·at·ed  
adj.
Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions.



[Probably from obsolete opinionate : opinion + -ate1.
, shoot-from-the-hip style--have been exaggerated. "Paul wins the award as the best forecaster in the financial world," a senior Treasury official argued. "He early on said the [U.S. economic] slowdown would be modest, and everybody laughed. They're not laughing now. You think Greenspan looks at numbers. This guy devours economic data."

All of which probably means that if the top Treasury job were in the Olympics, O'Neill would today receive from the panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
  • Dion Nania (Golden Lifestyle Band) - guitar
  • Alison Bolger (Clag, Sleepy Township) - bass
  • Paul Williams (Molasses, Jaguar Is Jaguar) - drums
Discography
 a 2.6 grade on style and a 9.6 on technical achievement. Problem is the job requires both stylistic sty·lis·tic  
adj.
Of or relating to style, especially literary style.



sty·listi·cal·ly adv.
 and technical skills.
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