Word: federales
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Like the genes in a living cell, the microcodes on a computer chip carry the instructions that control the chip's functions. Manufacturers safeguard the valuable microcodes with copyrights, but their legality has been a vexing question. No longer. In a landmark ruling last week in San Jose, Federal Judge...
Since his Inauguration, Bush has been trying to keep intact the tacit gentlemen's agreement forged by his fuzzy call for an era of bipartisanship and high ethical standards: if everyone in power would just get along with everyone else in power, all would be well. A 51% federal salary...
Talk about guaranteed federal jobs. Last November only six of the 408 House members running for re-election were defeated, and three of the losers had been tarred by very serious ethics problems. Few incumbents lay awake nights worrying about the unemployment line; 88% triumphed with at least 60% of...
The issue was, of course, the proposed pay raise that would have lifted congressional wages from $89,500 to $135,000 a year and far more equitably compensated federal judges and top Executive Branch officials. After weeks of public posturing against the Great Salary Grab, while privately coveting the raises...
It's always a tense moment when Rick Leach breaks the news to a suspect that he is not a buddy but rather an undercover federal agent. The people whom the dark-haired, soft-spoken cop arrests are usually armed, and some take the news badly: at different times, men...