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...doctrine of pre-emptive warfare, he spurred the military to fight lighter and faster than it had ever fought before, rewriting the battlefield playbook for perhaps a decade or more. Energized by hard work and spurred by his stubborn refusal to bend, he has extended the Pentagon's clout on all kinds of nonmilitary matters, from civil liberties at home to the conduct of diplomacy abroad. His power has at times verged on the absolute, and even some White House officials wonder whether anyone can rein him in. Yet for all his apparent certainty, he found...
...says the FSB, red tape and administration costs have increased 17%. And part of the struggle Gallagher faces comes from being dependent on the government. U.K. government authorities fund about 70% of the patients who occupy the nation's 350,000 beds for the elderly, and uses its clout to drive down prices and regulate caregivers. It's not as if regulators aren't trying to address the amount of paperwork. The DTI says that a flat-rate vat scheme, introduced last year, has cut red tape for 700,000 small businesses. It also notes that before any regulations...
...relinquishing ever-more sovereignty to this non-nation that goes by the name of Europe. The Franco-German power play has sharpened those anxieties even more. The fiercest battle in Europe's constitutional conclave, as in any such convention, is about balancing the weight of small states against the clout of the bigger ones. By acting as they did, France and Germany unwittingly gave Britain, Poland and Spain a foretaste of worse things to come. Why hop on a train where two engineers, by dint of their size and power, are more equal than the others? And so Europe...
...Claire Danes’ angst-ridden character in My So-Called Life, today’s tweens have icons who are universally recognized as celebrities with a mainstream following in multiple genres. Today’s tween stars now have the same net worth and carry the same media clout as any star twice (or for that matter, quadruple) their...
This was the real insult--not to Reagan but to his political heirs. By not seeking their blessing, CBS sent the message: You do not matter enough for us to fear you. Step on political operatives' Guccis, insult their mothers, but never, ever imply that they lack clout. By beating CBS, the network's foes helped themselves--online muckraker Matt Drudge modestly declared on MSNBC that the incident marked "the beginning of a second media century." But their defense of Reagan was at best contradictory and at worst insulting: 1) Reagan is a titan who saved America and freedom...