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DeBarba assembled a task force to assess what had to be done to get the pool ready for the overdue off-load, but he kept Galatis and Betancourt off the team. The task force came up with six serious problems, most already raised by Galatis. Scrambling to fix the pool in a few weeks, DeBarba hired extra people. The plant shut down, anticipating permission to move fuel...
...assess what he would do as President, one wonders whether to read his lips or his footprints. Would he use government, as he did in Tennessee, to improve the nation's infrastructure and education and to attract better jobs? He says not. He says he would shrink the Federal Government and empower Governors--and ministers and parents--to do what he and the people of his state...
...said that the press only consulted the British embassy in Athens about potential reprisals by nationalists, and did not contact the Greek government or any other Greek authorities who would have been more qualified to assess the risks from publishing the manuscript...
...extraordinary lengths to reassure Russians that they have nothing to fear from the redesign. The Treasury Department has posted explanatory flyers in Russian in Moscow and set up an information hot line, which is receiving up to 150 calls a day. The department has even run focus groups to assess Russian reactions to the new bill. The U.S. wants to head off any event that might destabilize Russia. In 1990, when a slightly modified $100 bill was issued, the General Accounting Office severely criticized Treasury for failing to educate the Russian public properly. Officials also fear any perception that...
...result of this inaccurate portrayal is the difficulty with which the public struggles against media-induced extremity, and attempts to formulate its own rational opinion of these "condemned prior to judged" politicians. How can we fairly assess Hillary Rodham Clinton's status without falling into one of the two media-produced camps? These days, it seems one must either join the majority in condemning Mrs. Clinton as a corrupt, adversarial Jezebel leading her husband into ruin or fight with the underdogs as a staunch Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter. These are the two ends of the spectrum, carefully constructed...