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...Even if Bush signs on, there is still the chance that the Supreme Court will strike down part of the bill, as it did with the reforms of a generation ago. The post-Watergate effort to tidy our politics only had the effect of brushing dirt into different corners. Last week party moneymen were looking for loopholes. "Anybody who thinks you'll have less money in politics as a result is just unrealistic," says Hagel. "The money will just go outside the system." A Democratic fund raiser in California jokes that in the short run wealthy people "may save some...
...radiophobia: ... radiation, X rays ranidaphobia: ... frogs rhabdophobia: ... punishment rhypophobia: ... defecation rhytiphobia: ... getting wrinkles rupophobia: ... dirt Russophobia: ... Russians...
...mageirocophobia: ... cooking malaxophobia: ... love play mastigophobia: ... punishment mechanophobia: ... machines melophobia: ... music menophobia: ... menstruation merinthophobia: ... being tied up metathesiophobia: ... changes methyphobia: ... alcohol microphobia: ... small things misophobia: ... dirt or germs mnemophobia: ... memories motorphobia: ... automobiles musophobia: ... mice mycophobia: ... mushrooms myxophobia: ... slime
...gone. Snow covers the ground, still two feet deep and melting squalidly, the temperature almost 40. The other day, as the town snowplow bullied through, roostering snow, it knocked down the mailbox and left it capsized at a drunken angle in a snowbank. Now snowmelt runs downhill onto the dirt road, which is reduced to quagmire. The car bucks and lurches through rutted mud. The creek rushes and brims...
...disease is highly mobile: It can be carried through the air, in animal by-products, on the dirt on people's shoes or on farm equipment. Foot-and-mouth thrives in dark, damp places, like barns, and can be destroyed with heat, sunlight and disinfectants. That's why pasteurized or cooked meats and dairy products are exempt from...