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...think they're just trying to get some back," Conway says, adding it could also be a sign that insiders don't think the market will continue to rally the way it has recently. "It's a good time for anybody who's taken a little bit of a hit in the last two years, even insiders. They're seeing an opportunity here where the market has given them some positive returns and they're going to take advantage of that...
...recycling trucks are always roaming around,” Conner said, “[but during opening days] we increase it a bit just because the volume is so much...
Much of the brouhaha could have been avoided if 1) there were other news last week, and 2) Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had been a bit more artful in his presentation of the speech's mission. "My concern is the clumsy way in which the Department of Education marketed this and the clumsy and unimpressive instructional materials that they provided," says Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
...Care for America Now!, heard that Potter was quietly reaching out to some pro-reform advocates about possibly going public. "I called him, and I said, 'Is this true? Are you seriously interested in this?,' " remembers Goldstein. "And he said, 'Yes, I think I am.' He had a little bit of trepidation." Goldstein helped connect Potter with Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller, who chairs the committee before which Potter ultimately appeared. Since then, "his activism has been nothing short of astonishing," says Goldstein. "He's a soft-spoken, serious man and has tremendous credibility...
...Control and International Security Affairs - wanted to use it (and did) as "the hammer I had been looking for to shatter" the nuclear deal done by the Clinton Administration, as Bolton once put it. Once the U.S. re-engaged with North Korea under Bush, the CIA walked back a bit from its assessment that Pyongyang had a secret uranium-enrichment program, saying during a congressional hearing in 2007 that the intelligence community was assured only at "mid confidence level" that the North had a uranium-enrichment program. Its confidence, it turns out, should have been higher. (See rare pictures from...