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...Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness to return federal land to state authority has also run afoul of sportsmen in his own state and party who support preservation of federal lands for hunting and fishing. "If the state gets the lands,'' predicts Republican state senator Al Bishop, "they will go on the sales block...
...broke the city's rent control laws,overcharging his tenants. He had a responsibility[during the debate over Question 9] to say thatthis was a law that he ran afoul of. Instead, heattempted to sort of squirm his way out," Turksays...
...long as ALG remained the central issue, Najarian's defenders could claim he had done nothing more immoral than run afoul of federal bureaucrats. But earlier this year, university officials disclosed irregularities in the surgery department's handling of federal grant money, including apparent diversions of funds to support the ALG program. Investigators also released documents suggesting that Najarian sometimes cheated on his expense accounts. Seven years ago, for instance, he allegedly asked the corporate sponsor of a conference held in Stockholm to reimburse him for $4,122 in travel charges after submitting a bill to the university claiming...
Anti-democratic ranters would run afoul of such a rule, on account of a belief that "the masses are asses." Most of the people who don't vote shouldn't vote, they argue. Perhaps forced awareness as described above would allay some of these fears, but the fundamental premise for removing decisions from the majority of the citizenry is still flawed...
...revealed that two senior officials had decided to leave the agency rather than accept demotions ordered by Director R. James Woolsey. The two men -- John MacGaffin, the No. 2 man in the agency's clandestine branch, and Frank Anderson, the head of Near East operations -- ran afoul of Woolsey for giving an award to one of the CIA officials whom Woolsey had criticized just last month for the agency's failure to detect mole Aldrich Ames. Congressional overseers expressed concern that the incident might suggest that Woolsey faces problems of insubordination...