scorekeeper
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First published in 2002, the scorecard serves as what S&P asserts to be “the de facto scorekeeper of the long-standing active versus passive debate.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
“I don’t know if they have Brooks Robinson as a scorekeeper here or what.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
The report by the nonpartisan budget scorekeeper could put pressure on a divided Congress to reach a deal to increase, or at least suspend, the debt limit before adjourning for the annual August recess.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
The Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper, in February 2021 estimated the budget deficit would fall dramatically in fiscal 2021 and 2022 because emergency pandemic spending would lapse.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
On the table by the scorekeeper stood a golden bird, this year’s Sharpshooter Award.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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