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...competition--not to mention deregulation proponents--in the 1970s. Since then, the priority among regulators and politicians has been to try to manage risk but to by all means avoid thwarting innovation. "I do not believe that government should stand in the way of innovation or turn back the clock to an older era of regulation" is how Obama put it in his big speech on the subject...
Three minutes remained on the clock. Both teams were deadlocked at nine goals each. Someone somewhere needed to take control of the game and step...
...movie has plenty of familiar faces - and voices - for Latin audiences. Ubiquitous L.A. disc jockey El Cucuy blares on the alarm clock, the rock group Kinky sings the corrido "Superman es Ilegal," and the band Los Tigres del Norte pick up a hitchhiking Carlito...
...were featured in sermons, too. Rev. Lester A. McCorn compared the candidate's recent trials to Michael Jordans performance in the 1997 NBA finals, when the basketball superstar seemed debilitated by fever but nevertheless joined the game and, though sluggish, took the ball with 24 seconds left on the clock and scored the winning three-point shot. "Swish, Barack! You are back in the game!" McCorn shouted to great applause...
...Florida compromise was also rejected by Obama, who didn't even put his name on the Michigan ballot in January. Otherwise, not surprisingly, he is keeping sheepishly quiet - and a bit unpresidential - about the whole thing, looking to many as if he is simply trying to run out the clock by raising objections to a proposed revote in Michigan...