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...Should a soft-money ban pass the House, there's the matter of reconciliation - taking McCain-Feingold and its House equivalent and molding them together into one unified bill. In other words, take the torturous negotiations and amendment-adornment that kept McCain-Feingold on the brink of death the last two weeks, double them for the House, and then multiply by four. Sunday, New York Democrat Charles Rangel told CNN he knew how it would come out: The measure would pass the House by a slim margin - and then die of a Republican "poison pill" when it goes...
...much broad-based American wealth been created and destroyed in so abrupt a lurch. The Wall Street contention is simple: These are again troubled global times, and the I-feel-rich American consumers who supported the U.S. economy through the Asian, Russian and hedge-fund tremors are on the brink of feeling very poor, and are acting accordingly...
...scraping is behind it. Unemployment is still near record lows, and still inching downward; home sales and mortgage refinancing (Americans' other source of net worth) are brisk. Consumer confidence and retail sales - the shopping factor that will sustain this economy or starve it - seem to have come to the brink and pulled up short...
...gave her reputation a spectacular boost. And now she could push what's left of his to the brink of oblivion...
...like to earn a living making left turns in heavy traffic at dangerously high speeds? Just ask Derrike Cope, 42, who won the Daytona 500 in 1990 and now calls races for the Fox Sports Network: "There is nothing like sitting in a projectile going 190 m.p.h. on the brink of going out of control. It's the sheer rush, touching every emotion you have." And a potentially lethal rush: three other NASCAR drivers died in the year leading up to Dale Earnhardt's crash...