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In June, the pharmaceutical industry promised to reduce Medicare prescription drug costs by $80 billion over 10 years. While a step in the right direction, this concession requires the Obama administration to oppose future cuts in drug costs. A Republican Congress forbade Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices with producers...
One such wrinkle: in a key concession to manufacturers, the Department of Transportation offers generous credits to carmakers that build advanced-technology vehicles. Manufacturers of electric vehicles will get credits that apply to the regulation's overall company pollution targets. However, the power-plant carbon emissions from generating the electricity...
Politically, President Bush’s ambitious plan of missile defense had long aggravated Russia, who thought the system was directed against it. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, however, welcomed Obama’s plan, calling it “responsible.” On that note, we are pleased that...
The proposed regulations only apply to televisions up to 58 inches. In a concession to critics during a yearlong process of developing the regulations, the Commission's staff decided not to regulate the super screen television entertainment units that are primarily an industry of small entrepreneurs.
Canberra has been in damage-control mode for months - to little effect. Hundreds of students took to the streets of Sydney and Melbourne again on Sept. 3 to protest not just the earlier attacks but substandard private colleges and courses that market to South Asian students, as well as poor...