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...Office, giving a boost to Democrats, last week said the program would cost the average family $175 in 2020. Whatever the expense, Republicans are labeling the bill as a carbon tax that - on top of the stimulus and the push for health-care reform - America's families can ill afford. "Nancy Pelosi's having a tough time getting the votes for that bill," Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, said Wednesday on Fox News. "Simply because, I think, the American people are waking up to the cost and consequences of the Democrats' agenda. They're spending money that...
...crops need to be re-discovered and developed through traditional methods as well as new technologies such as genetically modified seeds. "And we need to build a buffer stock of such seeds," she adds. If India hopes to get back and stay on a high-growth trajectory, it cannot afford to leave its fate at the mercy of the skies...
...hopes to turn its adventure there into a success. Washington wants Iraqis to build on the gains of the past two years--to clean up their government, speed up political and social reconciliation and pull the economy out of its state-controlled stasis. The U.S. can't afford to see Iraq turn into an Iranian satrapy or become a haven for cross-border terrorism. But without thousands of soldiers and billions of dollars at his disposal, Hill will have to persuade Iraqi officials to do Washington's bidding using old-fashioned diplomacy...
...according to the bibliographic-information company R.R. Bowker - it has a lot of power at the negotiating table. All retailers get discounts from their wholesalers, but some publishers think the discounts Amazon asks for are getting too deep. "They're fast approaching the point where we just can't afford to do business with them," says a well-known New York book editor, who asked not to be identified. "It'll be interesting to see what happens then...
...package. The application process for bullet-train bucks ($8 billion this year and $1 billion in each of the next five years) began this week. States like Florida are vying for big chunks of it - not only as free funding for a traffic decongestant they thought they couldn't afford, but also as a high-tech pump primer for the kind of higher-wage jobs that low-wage economies like Florida's need. Current Florida governor Charlie Crist, who has angered conservatives in his Republican Party by embracing Obama's overall stimulus program - and who has reversed much...