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...which will almost certainly begin within the month, is one designed at helping troubled companies survive by pressing cost cuts through consolidation of common functions. It is an ugly set of motivations but compelling enough to insure that investment banks can call some of their best deal people and ask them to come back to work...
...have been a significantly tougher standard than the federal rules (the 2007 Energy Act did require corporate average fuel economy [CAFE] to approach that figure, but not until 2020). California requested a waiver for its own tough standards - under the Clean Air Act, the state has the right to ask to set tougher environmental rules than the Federal Government - but in an unprecedented move in December 2007, Stephen Johnson, the Bush-appointed head of the EPA, denied California's request. (Read "Obama Cleans Up After Bush...
...fact he works very hard to de-glamorize the way corporate litigation is practiced at high-dollar New York firms - but somehow it has the opposite effect. You're peering into a secret world of power and money. What more could you or any red-blooded American ask for? (Read TIME's 10 Questions for John Grisham...
...White House could at least maneuver to suspend - if not yet revoke - the rules while it seeks to overturn them. The Administration could also seek to withhold funding from certain regulations. Last, as part of the Congressional Review Act, which went into force in 1996, the White House can ask Congress to vote down any rule finalized after a certain date, which would include all the midnight regulations. But that law has been used successfully only once since it was enacted, and exercising it would take valuable energy away from Obama's legislative agenda...
...Then Gibbs took the stage for his first White House press briefing, and promptly disclosed the official's first name. "We had Greg help you guys understand a little bit of that," Gibbs said, in front of live television cameras. Later a reporter asked Gibbs if he realized he had just disclosed the first name of the undisclosed official. "I do," Gibbs said, keeping his composure. "I'm tempted to ask you to see if you can get one person's name into the papers so people will think he might be a Brazilian soccer star." Unhappily for Gibbs, White...