Word: federales
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Environmentalists are also troubled by Bush's flimsy guarantee that only three U.S. cities -- Los Angeles, Houston and New York City -- will fail to meet federal air-quality standards by the year 2000. Critics say that the Bush plan might allow as many as six other cities to miss that...
What is at issue here is not government suppression but government subsidy. Mapplethorpe's work is not banned, but showing it might have endangered federal grants to needy artists. The idea that what the government does not support it represses is nonsensical, as one can see by reversing the statement...
Many Senators are openly predicting the defeat of at least one nominee: Frederick Bush, Ambassador-designate to Luxembourg. No relation to the President, Bush served as the Vice President's deputy chief of staff in the Reagan Administration. He has been accused of using his connections to garner some $600...
Federal law requires that ambassadors "should possess clearly demonstrated competence," including knowledge of the language, history and culture of the country where they will serve. Several of Bush's diplomatic picks appear to know next to nothing about the countries to which they are being sent. What they have shown...
The words sounded like those of a business leader lecturing the U.S. central bank about the dangers of letting the economy slump too far: "It is prudent for the Federal Reserve to recognize the risk that such softness ((in the economy)) conceivably could accumulate and deepen, resulting in a substantial...