Word: bailiwick
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...What free-market Republicans believe deep down - that 401(k)s started as an IRS-induced way for companies to lure talent and impress employees, and should stay that way and out of the government's bailiwick - is getting obscured by a political drive to make voters feel safe from the vagaries of the market. But what Democrats believe deep down - that government should itself make sure those employees' retirements are safe from the vagaries of the market - can't ever really happen. And so the mad piling of laws on top of laws - and loopholes on top of loopholes...
...people who love the Harry Potter books; they have been eagerly adopted by uncounted adults and have prompted serious academic attention. Vance Smith, an assistant professor of English at Princeton University who is spending this year as a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein's old bailiwick, has just delivered a lecture called "Harry Potter and This Ever-Changing Medieval World" to an alumni seminar. He praises, among other things, Rowling's clever use of Latin and her "important and rigorous medieval agenda...
...name as the guitarist for John Hiatt on the "Slow Turning" album about 10 years ago, manages to dodge both of these bullets on his second solo outing, "Levee Town," turning out a sturdy batch of bluesy "swamp pop" that's fairly dripping with riffsome virtuosity. Landreth's bailiwick is electric slide guitar, to which he brings a a killer sound and a revved-up attitude that takes the legacy of Ry Cooder and Lowell George and gooses...
Even before leaving the Pentagon, McPeak pointed out the excess in his own bailiwick, the U.S. Air Force. While the Air Force is the world's largest, with 3,200 planes, the U.S. Navy's warplane fleet of 1,900 ranks as No. 3, after China's 2,800, he pointed out. Not a single one of the U.S.'s currently likely foes has more than about half the number of planes that the U.S Navy alone has. McPeak maintains that the costly demands to outfit and train some 1.5 million troops for two wars is bleeding dry the military...
...Speaker-presumptive NEWT GINGRICH's government-trimming, voter-pleasing butcher's knife. Proposed initiatives -- none of which the President has yet agreed to -- include merging the Interior and Energy departments and abolishing Commerce altogether. While neither step looks likely, Commerce Secretary RON BROWN is already maneuvering to keep his bailiwick intact...