There hasn't been an American winner -- male or female -- of the Boston Marathon in almost 30 years. Kenyan and Ethiopian runners now dominate the sport. But this year an American woman named Shalane Flanagan has a very real chance of winning the 26-mile race.She's only 5-foot-4 and 102 pounds.But don't be fooled -- she's been called a pony-tailed assassin in knee socks. She also happens to have grown up in Boston which makes her next week's hometown favorite.ou could say, 'Here, Shalane, you have an Olympic medal, or you could win the Boston Marathon.' A no-brainer to me would be winning the Boston Marathon.. Tom Grilk: The people who line the road know -- certainly know any local runner who is there.
I'm surprised that more people who talk a lot about it haven't looked carefully at where we find ourselves, he says. The federal deficit is shrinking rather quickly â both in absolute dollars and as a share of the overall economy. The Congressional Budget Office projects the deficit will drop below 4 percent of GDP next year and below 2.5 percent in 2015.
US budget deficit for 2008 $400 billion. Budget for $2009 $999.95 Billion. 2010 is expected to be $1.43 Trillion. --------- The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projected the 2009 deficit as $1.2 trillion on January 7, 2009. This was the last estimate they did while Bush was president.