Word: caps
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...stretch of this humble road near the tiny hamlet of Chendebji bears witness to an unprecedented event: the shooting of Bhutan's first-ever homegrown feature film. Its writer and director, Khyentse Norbu, bundled against the wind in a thick, maroon turtleneck and pale lavender muffler, pulls his baseball cap low over his eyes and instructs the cameraman to focus on four actors by the side of the road. "Again," he says into a walkie-talkie, and a red tractor emerges from around the bend to collect two of the actors?one dressed as a monk, the other carrying...
...question of Ivorian citizenship requirements, which Muslims believe Christians have manipulated to keep them from power. But many key details, including a timetable for new elections, still need to be negotiated. E.U. A Poor Trade-Off? The European Commission proposed a series of reforms to its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as part of a drive to improve the E.U.'s position in ongoing negotiations on global trade. The package included proposals for the E.U. to stop production-related subsidies and to reduce market supports on several crops. The E.U.'s trading partners called the proposals inadequate; the reforms also face...
...cap off that great decade, my man Bush I defeated Dukakis by reminding the country in a campaign advertisement of the lessons of Birth of a Nation: white women need to be protected against black male rapists...
...Also controversial are unanswered questions about the disposal of the Tennessee plant's radioactive waste. Officials in Tennessee have reached a tentative agreement with LES to cap the amount of waste and, last week , the company announced that the material would not stay in Tennessee permanently. But it offered no details as to where the waste might be transferred, a process that can be subject to complex federal licensing procedures...
...problem to fix. Tort reform is not rocket science. A reasonable bill passed the House of Representatives just last year but died in the Senate, where the trial-lawyer lobby rules. The elements of a fix are simple: no limit on plaintiffs' lost earnings or other costs, a reasonable cap on pain and suffering ($250,000 in the House bill), a similar cap on punitive damages, serious penalties for frivolous lawsuits...