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...soon as Greenspan finished this sentence, the American media's breaking news sensor sparked an automatic chain reaction, ultimately filling every major newspaper's headline with the words "Greenspan endorses Bush's tax-cut plans." Far from it. Greenspan further qualified his carefully worded statement by pointing out the "tentativeness of our [budgetary] projections" and that some of the conclusions on tax receipts are "little more than informed guesses." He then ended his talk with a cautionary note that "with today's euphoria surrounding the surpluses, it is not difficult to imagine the hard-earned fiscal restraint developed in recent...
...India began the thaw, with a plan worked out between Vajpayee and a formerly obscure Indian bureaucrat, Brajesh Mishra, a 72-year-old chain-smoker from the Prime Minister's home state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. A former ambassador to China, Mishra is now the Prime Minister's most trusted adviser, his Principal Secretary and his National Security chief. Rivals describe him as the second-most powerful man in India. In 1999, Mishra overturned Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani's threatened "hot pursuit" policy in Kashmir, which would have involved crossing the Line of Control and striking...
...winds and currents had limited the amount of oil washing up onto the islands, at least one pelican and two sea gulls are known to have died, and long-term damage could include negative effects on the archipelago?s algae, which form a vital part of the Galapagos food chain...
...California and Florida). The stakes are huge: the $3.5 billion in annual textbook sales is greater than the sales of all hardcover books to adults. Textbooks are superficial in part because they must conform to state standards, which are often encyclopedic in scope. But "the weakest link in the chain," according to education researcher Harriet Tyson, is "textbook evaluation." Most committee members have little time to examine texts thoroughly, frequently making decisions based on splashy graphics and frills like CD-ROMs...
...Number of "audible crunches" that evaluators of Burger King's "improved" French fries had to hear before the chain offered the new fries...