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...House when it comes to national security matters. From the Democrats' perspective, that means plenty of willingness to criticize Bush on all fronts when it comes to his handling of national security and even the use of his war powers - but, at least for now, no overt efforts to curtail them...
...famously beautiful city. In the most horrific incident, thugs torched an interstate bus with the passengers still on it, burning eight people alive. It was an unmistakeable message to authorities on the eve of new governor Sergio Cabral's swearing-in: we will not sit back and let you curtail the cocaine and marijuana dealings that bring us millions of dollars each month...
There's one hitch. It's not supposed to be like old times. In an election in which exit polls identified corruption as the No. 1 voting issue and Washington's biggest corruption scandal involved lobbying, Democrats won in part by promising to curtail K Street's excesses. Pelosi has said her first act as Speaker of the House in January will be to pass new rules limiting contact between lobbyists and lawmakers. Later in 2007, Pelosi plans to rewrite the laws on pork-barrel spending. She promises that the overall effect of her reforms will be "to break...
Just five months into his job as president of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Etienne de Villiers faced a hostile crowd of doubles pros at the Masters Cup in Shanghai to explain to them why he would have to curtail their sport to save it. The players had already filed suit against the ATP, and there was De Villiers last November, back swinging just four months after cancer surgery, telling them he was going to go ahead with a shortened, no-ad scoring system; a super tie-break instead of a third set; and a rule that doubles players...
...compensate for its humungous and growing deficit, the MBTA needs to do one of two things: cut costs or raise revenues. The only way for the agency to effectively accomplish the former would be to eliminate routes and offer otherwise reduced services, or to curtail its employees’ wages or benefits. Both would be disastrous for the citizens of Boston. The MBTA has sensibly opted to take the revenue-raising course, so that it may maintain or even improve upon current levels of service...