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...bill and instead passed a Republican version of the legislation that removes the personnel requirement. We urge the conference committee to move quickly on the bill and to restore the Senate language as much as possible before sending the bill to the president’s desk...
...typical country church, this one outside Dengfeng county is run by a lay minister who has received no special training on dealing with strange sects. It is poor. The pulpit is a red flounce curtain draped over a desk; broken windows let the swirling central China dust coat the whitewashed walls. The biggest single expenditure this year was the $25 the congregation gave its most desperate members to celebrate the lunar new year. Every Sunday 150 peasants crowd onto low wooden benches to receive the Word, including a gray-haired woman known as Granny...
From behind a desk, CAC director Weeks pulls the strings that control the Cambridge street performer network...
When his network connection went bad, Gordon said he scheduled an appointment with the computing Help Desk the following morning...
...mood over at the White House is one of increasingly frustrated anticipation. President Bush, anxious to see a bill - any bill - appear on his desk, prefers the House Republicans? version, but warns Congress that unless he sees action on the airport security bill soon, he?ll consider bypassing debate altogether by issuing an executive order. Ever hopeful for a peaceful outcome, the President met with congressional leaders Wednesday to try to smooth over differences...