Search Details

Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...modern Presidents to institute last-minute laws before leaving the White House, but George W. Bush's final agenda is angering environmentalists. Critics say these "midnight regulations"--Bush is pushing through a record number of them--have consequences that will not be easily reversed. The new laws would allow: ? Federal agencies to develop land without scientific oversight ? Farms to dump waste into nearby waterways ? Weaker standards for safe drinking water ? Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and oil drilling in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming ? Increased emissions for coal-fired stations ? Loaded, concealed firearms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...France show that slightly more than half the population want shops to have the freedom to open on Sundays. But a powerful range of opponents combined against the idea. Leftist politicians and unions, for example, denounced the plan as introducing a seven-day work week. That, they say, would allow bosses to force workers to work Sundays - despite measures in the original bill that stipulated Sunday hours were both optional, and higher-paid. Conservatives, meantime, brushed off Sarkozy's assurances that the extra day of activity would boost France's economy, and focused on the fact that Sunday trading would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunday Shopping? France Says Non | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...uses a similar process to augment its reservoirs, and water managers from around the globe have been visiting Orange County to study GRS. Especially in the drier parts of the world - such as the American Southwest, northern China amd the Middle East - water recycling could be a way to allow development without turning to even more expensive methods of water reclamation, like desalinization. But what we really need to do is treat water as the limited resource it is, first by limiting pollution, then by reusing it as much as possible. The U.N.'s Barlow - whose mandate is to increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sewage That's Clean Enough to Drink | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...problem, but it takes some skills and experience to know how many bodies you need.” Economics faculty assistant Trina Ott said the administration should have placed specific budgetary constraints on departments—instead of halting staff hiring across the FAS—to allow them to determine how they can operate most efficiently. At the last Faculty meeting, Smith asked professors to consider how they could cut 10 to 15 percent of their departmental budgets in anticipation of a FAS budget shortfall of at least $100 million. The day before, Smith had announced a hold...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hiring Freeze Still Concerns FAS Staff | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...from the mold of a 1970s post-Watergate maverick politician, Quinn has long been viewed as a serious-minded, if eccentric, reformer. In his 30s, after graduating from Georgetown and Northwestern, he tried to amend the state constitution to allow residents to enact laws through referendums. He once urged people to inundate former governor James Thompson's office with 40,000 tea bags to beat back postelection pay hikes. These days, he draws attention to the cause of veterans by hosting a website called Operation Homefront. (Meanwhile, he slips into the funerals of soldiers almost unnoticed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Quinn: The Man Who Would Replace Blagojevich | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

Previous | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | 288 | 289 | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | Next