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...Natural gas, too - Lindsey touted Bush's ability to get more natural gas out of Mexico. But mostly it sounds to be about rehabbing America's pumping, refining and oil-services industries: There's plenty in the ground to go around, they're saying; keep a strong arm with the Arabs, and American business will do the rest if the government would just let up on the regulations a little...
...travel around with him, and the reporters were not amused. But they should chill. The questions were similar to the ones Gore's been asked before and his answers were largely the same. Instead, the intriguing moments were the small things: A kid must have put out an arm for the veep's autograph. "I'm sorry. I don't sign skin," I heard Gore apologize. Who knew...
...such as lost wages or medical bills, so a worker injured by a defective machine would be unable to collect damages for injuries such as death, loss of limb, loss of child, permanent disfigurement or chronic pain. In one 1995 case identified by House Democrats, Reginaldo Gonzalez lost an arm due to a defective printing press made in 1973. The manufacturer had recognized the defects in the press in 1974 and altered the model, but neglected to tell previous buyers about the danger the machines posed. Under this bill, Gonzalez would have been unable to sue for non-economic injuries...
...Actually, it's a grab bag of techniques that combine bits of all these with "nuggets of wisdom" from arenas as diverse as football and 12-step programs. Sometimes what a coach does, says Kathleen Phillips, an in-house coach at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, the former management-consulting arm of Ernst & Young, is help a client see a problem--or a problem job--a different way. In that way, say proponents, coaching helps shore up weak points in their employees as well as build on their strengths...
...powerful, in fact, that she didn't realize her own strength. "I learned defense pretty fast," she says. "I dislocated a girl's arm once. Well, actually, she punched me at the wrong angle so she messed herself up. But I'd walk outside the gym and want people to pick a fight with me. If you go and look for trouble, you'll find it. My ego was about to run away with...