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Just in yesterday's New York Times, for example, a page-one story recounted how state legislators are tripping and falling over themselves in their rush to enact "tough" sentencing laws against criminals. Criminals seem to be the one constituency wholly out of favor with politicians...
...proposals for more Fed openness by sending him a letter last September opposing any fundamental changes in the Federal Reserve Act. Then Greenspan sought to outflank Gonzalez in February and March by taking the unprecedented step of announcing the rate hikes the same day the Fed decided to enact them...
...weed another rebellious turn-on for kids? What sort of policy sense does it make to try to legislate smoking out of existence at the same time that the government is becoming increasingly dependent on tobacco as a source of tax revenue? And for all the new efforts to enact tough restrictions on smoking, how widely does the American public support them...
...these arrangements don't always work: Russia has been trying to orchestrate a second pollack treaty in the Sea of Okhotsk, off Siberia, but Poland, South Korea and China have refused to go along. And even when nations enact bans or quotas for certain species, they can be difficult to enforce. Sometimes ships flying flags of convenience just ignore agreements...
Department sources said that Dowling, who was the subject of several of the employees' charges, has attempted to enact many of the report's recommendations--even those with which he does not personally agree...