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...drama and import. But critics say the BCS can discriminate against worthy underdogs and elevate the wrong teams to its ultimate showdown. Outrage over its capricious rankings spurred Senate hearings in 2003 and a congressional inquiry in 2005. A 2007 Gallup poll found that only 15% of fans would balk at scrapping the present format for a tidy year-end tournament. This year, that number is probably even lower in the Lone Star State...
...less than a month, both the national election and Motley’s unexpected turn as president will have come to an end. He and the HRC executive board have begun to plan for both of these eventualities, and while most HRC members balk at discussing the potential for their candidate’s loss next week, it’s a possibility all seem to have considered. (The club’s post-election after-party will have an appropriately flexible “celebrate the election/drown your sorrows” theme...
...Some of your closest aides are suspected of stealing land, smuggling drugs and running illegal militias. Yet you balk at bringing them to trial. One of our biggest sources of contention with the international community has been their use of [militias as] private security companies. [That's] one of the reasons for insecurity on our highways. This is something that we do not support, that we are publicly and officially very much against. It is something with which I have called on all members of the international community, on all the ambassadors...
...estimate, to their 1967 level. Yet many Mexican officials feel that their diligence in making sacrifices, and in honoring every debt payment so far, has been insufficiently recognized by creditors abroad. ''Mexico requires special treatment,'' said Angel Gurria, head of foreign credit at the Finance Ministry. ''But bankers balk at setting a precedent.'' Many of those balkers come from Mexico's potential backers to the north. Former U.S. Ambassador John Gavin reportedly urged American bankers to withhold loans from Mexico until the country began to show signs of serious / economic reform. The Administration firmly maintains that Mexico cannot simply make...
These days, you'll increasingly have to make some effort to control pollution and balance profits with corporate social responsibility. But many Western multinationals would still balk at demands to create enough jobs in the host country to offset the corruption, inequality and not infrequent social unrest their fees can fuel. Such things, they argue, are someone else's concern. The persistence of this mind-set is one reason for the endurance of the "resource curse," the term given by economists to the paradox that countries blessed with natural wealth often grow more slowly and become more violent and repressive...