Word: braked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...standing in McCain's way. Hagel was sponsor of an alternative bill that instead of banning soft money would limit it: his measure would allow couples to donate $540,000 in each two-year election cycle to candidates and parties, not much of a brake on the current system. McCain and Feingold knew that Hagel had the quiet encouragement of the White House and that if his bill passed as proposed, theirs was as good as dead...
...quality and experience of the FAA auditors were also questioned by the airlines. One examiner did not know how to define two parts of basic airline operations; another reportedly asked what a speed brake on a jet is--a question that nearly rivals asking which end of the plane goes forward...
...Even Trent Lott, bowing to the realities of his joint-checking-account relationship with Daschle, is tapping the brake. "The Senate is going to be more inclined to take up the entire package" after the budget is passed later in the spring, Lott said Monday. "Our goal is to try to find a bill that will have total Republican support and a lot of Democrats...
Williams said he feared that the snow Atlanta has had this year might put the brake on his travel plans...
...even then struggle to maintain a workable majority government (as Barak did). Now, Netanyahu looks set to return to the same booby-trapped office. But even having to govern via a traditionally fractious Israeli coalition government won't stop Netanyahu from keeping his foot firmly jammed on the brake of the peace process. Or at least, proceeding only in Bibi steps...