Word: back-door
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...jury’s still out as to its success, and, frankly, the forecast remains bleak. Despite that, the number of doomsayers has remained surprisingly limited. It’s true that nobody really knows what’s going on anymore: mysterious back-door finagling involving securitized mortgages and credit default swaps somehow resulted in frail old grandmothers thrown out of their Orlando condos; money managers walking into their own clever booby traps ended up in the red and out of work. The stimulus package, our best option, seemed more of a quick-fix to placate the masses?...
...sank three three-pointers en route to 16 points. Housman, who scored 43 points in last weekend’s two games combined, was held to just two points on dismal 0-of-11 shooting.Koncz added 14 for the Tigers, while junior Jason Briggs tallied 11, several off of back-door cuts that burned the Crimson. Princeton made a team record 19-of-19 from the free-throw line. After a back-and-forth start, Princeton used a 13-4 run to take a 23-14 lead with 4:58 to play in the first half. But, seven straight points...
...hearts and minds of millions of Americans will not be changed by back-door negotiating and the swipe of a president’s pen. Jacob P. Reitan, a prominent LGBT activist and current student at Harvard Divinity School, expressed disappointment in the state of LGBT activism precisely for this reason. “The LGBT community is very weak on raw action,” he said. “We lobby Congress, work on getting votes for legislative decisions, but we rarely take to the streets to convince people of our rights.” He asked...
...triggered last week, when influence-peddling charges were filed against Justice Minister Clemente Mastella and his wife, who is a local politician in the Southern region of Campania. The minister resigned his cabinet post amid dramatic declarations of his love for his wife and family. After a weekend of back-door maneuvering (and reports that he wouldn't take Prodi's calls), Mastella announced his definitive "basta!", saying his party, tiny but crucial, would no longer support the government...
...instead of cutting farm spending--which accounted for less than nutrition spending--Peterson persuaded Pelosi to pry money out of the Ways and Means Committee by closing a loophole that helps foreign firms duck U.S. tax liabilities. Republicans denounced this back-door tax hike to no avail. "They had every right to scream foul," Kind says. "There was no vetting in Ways and Means, no hearings, no markup. My party just grabbed $10 billion to buy off the opposition." Democratic leaders then squelched an amendment that would have forced an up-or-down vote on eliminating subsidies for farmers earning...