Word: consciousnesses
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George Bush has been working on the corporate responsibility speech he plans to give Tuesday for more than a month. And it just keeps getting harder. Always conscious that the president gets blamed for a weak economy (See Bush I, chapter '92), the administration started the process hoping to merely calm a jittery stock market and reassure Americans that the economy - and their 401(k) pension plans - were sound. "We needed to do something to settle the uncertainty," says one senior official. But before the White House could address the string of scandals that have sapped confidence in American business...
...Amtrak were even half as budget conscious as I am, we'd have a train system that worked. Unfortunately, the entire company is in shambles. Monday, the Amtrak board of directors begged Transportation Secretary Norman Minetta for another $200 million in "rescue" funds. The White House seemed uninterested in bailing out the ailing rail system and many GOP leaders, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, said they'd like to eliminate Amtrak's rail monopoly...
...people." Beckett does emphasize, however, that the monetarism that became Chile's economic creed under Pinochet, and Britain's under Thatcher, was imported from the University of Chicago. Economist Milton Friedman, who was to become a guru to future Thatcher adviser Alan Walters, "rejected the socially conscious economics that had dominated the thinking of democratic governments since the Great Depression of the 1930s," writes Beckett. Under Pinochet and Thatcher, emphasis on the rough-and-tumble of the free market "had unpleasant implications for the trade unions, the poor and the other left-wing or vulnerable interest groups to whom British...
...retarded but whose defense attorney was too incompetent to bring it up during a trial or in appeals could be granted a new trial. Sounds easy enough, but it's going to be a tough case for defense attorneys to make, Belsky says. "If the first lawyer made a conscious, strategic choice to avoid the issue of the client's mental capacity, there will be no retrial. So of course every prosecutor will try to deflect charges of incompetence and uncover strategic plots in the defense's tactics." There will also be some new hearings - and possibly sentences...
...Ready for his lunch, Jiang sits up and casually unbuttons his sweaty, gray shirt, unself-conscious after years of on-set wardrobe changes. His assistant hands him a fresh shirt?navy blue printed with a herd of fierce, red, glaring bulls. "Ever had horse meat?" he asks as the waitress delivers a plate of blood red sashimi. He clenches a fist and then grips his tensed forearm, adopting the tone of an older, more experienced brother. "It makes you strong...