Word: center
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would say the mood is one of mourning right now," Bryan English, spokesman for the conservative Iowa Family Policy Center, told the Associated Press, even as he promised to lobby legislators hard to begin an amendment process. But that process, in Iowa, is a lengthy one - and unlike in California, the constitution can't be amended by a simple vote of the people. Both houses of the legislature must approve it, and most legal experts agree that the process could be put before voters no sooner than 2012. (See TIME's video: "Iowa: Gay Marriage in the Heartland...
...given at least 60 days notice.“They can’t make [budget deficits] go away by cutting out cookies and coffees. They do need to get rid of personnel,” said Beth Baiter, a 69-year-old staff assistant at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. “Given my age, I would probably be one of the early ones to be laid off.”Despite the stated voluntary nature of the retirement program, Kaufman said he would have felt subtly threatened by the possibility of layoffs had he not accepted...
...noted that the group had been meeting regularly and had come up with “many very exciting ideas,” such as revamping the Holyoke Center, which she said is “very underused...
...addition, one three-story structure and another five-story building would be constructed on the lot and a glass “art commons” would be placed in the center of the newly-created quadrangle...
West notes that the Treasury Department, which is the Administration's command center for dealing with the financial crisis, has made significant progress in recent weeks in putting candidates into the pipeline for confirmation. (A list provided by Treasury to TIME shows that people have been nominated or confirmed for all but four of the top 18 political posts.) But West says only one-third of the political appointees to top jobs are at their posts in the Commerce and Health and Human Services departments. And staffing is going slowly at the Pentagon, the Environmental Protection Agency and Homeland Security...