Word: districters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Last month, on the sunday when Premier Wen Jiabao opened the annual National People's Congress with a speech about building a "new socialist countryside," Yu headed for the town of Changgou, in a rural district of Beijing, "to try to save some trees." Friends in the district government had phoned with news that Changgou had announced it would bulldoze several of its constituent villages and bring in 5,000 laborers to create an enormous man-made lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience...
Presumably a potential employer would run a basic background search that would turn up Middlesex District Court records from the Quincy House student’s case. The student’s name is also online—and available for free—in the logs posted on the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) website. So even if the Feb. 24 arrest does “hugely compromise” the student’s future, we’re not sure whether that comes as a result of The Crimson’s decision. But we believe that...
...downtown emergency evacuation plan after the fireworks found that traffic signals didn't switch to evacuation timing, some federal radios weren't charged and some officials didn't have a clear sense of their responsibilities. Local officials say they fixed the problems afterwards. But as Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district's congressional delegate, puts it: "You wonder how many afterwards there are going to have...
...minute interview on Monday. "I'm very much at peace with it." He notified President Bush in the afternoon. DeLay and his wife, Christine, said they had been prepared to fight, but that he decided last Wednesday, after months of prayer and contemplation, to spare his suburban Houston district the mudfest to come. "This had become a referendum on me," he said. "So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district...
Experts say Exxon is appealing the punitive portion of the case in part to curtail open-ended payouts for future spills. Says Boudreaux: "It is [a question of] whether punitive damages are warranted in this case." To that question, U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland has twice answered yes. Both times, after an appeals court sent it back for review, he agreed with the jury's decision awarding the plaintiffs $4.5 billion, noting that Exxon "demonstrated reckless disregard for a broad range of legitimate Alaska concerns...