Word: core
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...signaled his willingness to overturn Roe and gut the heart of the regulatory state, Kennedy is unlikely to provide a fifth vote for either. In the partial-birth case, he repeated his longstanding view that although late-term abortions could be restricted, the early-term abortions at the core of Roe had to be protected. And he made clear his support for environmental regulations when he joined the court's four liberals in holding that the Bush Environmental Protection Agency thwarted the will of Congress in refusing to regulate greenhouse gases...
...welfare checks if children miss too much school, and the quarantining of some government payments to ensure they're spent on food rather than drugs and alcohol. The government also plans to take over township leases so that homes and infrastructure can be repaired; it will ban hard-core pornography and carry out health checks on all children. The rigid permit system that restricts the entry of outsiders such as journalists into communities will be largely scrapped, and Howard wants traditional Aboriginal law removed as a mitigating factor in criminal sentencing. He agrees they're drastic measures: "It is interventionist...
...that office alone is unlikely to remedy the broader problem of underpaid, undervalued work in urban restaurants. "They are not isolated, short-lived cases of exploitation at the fringe of the city's economy," writes Bernhardt in the report. "Instead, the systematic violation of our country's core employment and labor laws ... is threatening to become a way of doing business for unscrupulous employers. And yet from the standpoint of public policy, these jobs - and the workers who hold them - are too often off the radar screen...
After nearly five years of debate, the Faculty approved a new program of general education last month that will replace the generation-old Core Curriculum. The program may go into effect as early as fall 2008, and the dean of the College will be key to ensuring that the transition goes smoothly...
...what? Maybe if the idea weren't so closely associated with hippies like Al Gore, conservatives might see carbon credits for what they also are: a brilliant next step in the development of capitalism. What offends conservatives about carbon credits is not some green absurdity but the very core of our economic system: the free exchange of goods and services, a.k.a. the deal. If a deal is voluntary, then by definition it leaves both parties to it better off. Otherwise they wouldn't do it. Put all these deals together and--with a few exceptions--you have free-market capitalism...