Word: burdens
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...ambitious fuel economy standards, if adopted, will force the auto industry to rapidly retool to produce more efficient cars and trucks. Auto manufacturers have fought California's rules in court, arguing that allowing the state to go forward on its own would create a patchwork of regulations that would burden an already struggling industry. But in the past, the Federal Government has often followed California's lead, meaning the feared patchwork could soon become the national standard. Greens expect the Obama Administration to push the country in that direction. (As a Senator, Obama called for fuel economy to rise...
With an economy in meltdown, two wars to fight and a need to find his feet quickly, Obama may not have the time to rewrite Bush's rulebook, even if it does hurt the planet. "It's a huge burden on a new presidency that already faces more than its fair share of burdens," says Vickie Patton, a senior attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund. Bush's messes won't be cleaned up easily...
...this point, the new Congress and administration seem likely to use $825 billion in aid and $350 billion in TARP money to bring down the tax burden, salvage troubled mortgages, and create a great series of public works projects. These programs are supposed to create over three million jobs as they build energy, education, IT, medical, and broadband infrastructure. Getting the capital for these into the system means running them through government agencies and into the private sector. Many of the projects will operate in regulated parts of the economy like the health care system, so they will be subject...
...parts of his presidency that had fallen short, the President asserted that he wasn't feeling sorry for himself, and that to do so would be unseemly. He raised the most recent crisis to hit the country - the economic crisis - and said he scorned the idea of the "burden of office." "Why'd the financial collapse have to happen on my watch?" he mocked. "It's just pathetic, isn't it, self-pity?" (Read "Bush's Last Days: The Lamest Duck...
...matches lengthen, careers often shorten. Nadal and his coterie of physical trainers know that the flip side of his heavy topspin is that it forces him to engage in bruising rallies. His muscle-bound physique - which Nadal says is down to genes rather than weight-lifting - adds an extra burden: the explosive forces those muscles generate put his body under increased strain...