Word: celling
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...This isn't the first time Obama has received decidedly mixed reviews from Catholics. A few months ago, he issued an Executive Order lifting restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research. The move was immediately denounced by the USCCB as "morally wrong," and even moderate Catholics complained about the way the decision was handled. But the Vatican had a different reaction. L'Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper published under the authority of the Vatican's Secretariat of State, ran an article in late April essentially urging the bishops to chill...
...international relations. "On ethical questions, too - which from the time of the electoral campaign have been the subject of strong worries by the Catholic bishops - Obama does not seem to have confirmed the radical innovations that he had discussed," said the article, which noted that Obama's stem-cell guidelines were "less permissive" than expected...
...protesters refused to carry on any discussions with the Saakashvili regime except regarding the terms of the democratically elected president’s resignation. She fails to recognize Russia’s profound military weakness (while invading Georgia, many of its officers were reduced to communciating on their personal cell phones) or the effect of the nation’s recent economic collapse (stock market down three quarters, reserves down half, currency value down a third, double-digit unemployment and inflation). NATO in fact has far more power over Russia than Ms. Bryson imagines. She attempts to impugn President Saakashvili?...
...criminal complaint, Pitino acknowledges "an encounter" with Sypher in 2003. Sometime after that, Tim Sypher, the team's equipment manager, met Karen, and they were married. In late February 2009, Pitino told the FBI, he received two voice mails on his personal cell phone from an unidentified man who characterized the interaction between Pitino and an unnamed woman as criminal. The caller later threatened to notify the media. Pitino said he then met with Sypher and her husband and asked what she wanted. Karen Sypher wrote out a list of demands, he said, including college tuition for her children...
...yielded substantial annual savings through “downshifting” of digital lines to analog lines, conversion of physical fax machines to virtual fax services that deliver faxes directly to an employee’s email account, and shifting of some employees to use only cell phones. The FAS is also auditing use of FAS-issued mobile phones and PDAs...