Word: fiat
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...transportation infrastructure, the Brazilian machinery industry would simply "collapse" if forced to compete with North American firms, a Brazilian industry official says. The country's chemical industry says it would have to invest an extra $5 billion a year to avoid a similar fate, while Gianni Coda, director of Fiat Latin America, frets that "the entire Brazilian automotive sector will lose...
...throughout China, millions of citizens are being evicted from their homes. Nowhere are the bulldozers more bullish than in Shanghai. To date, an area roughly the size of Venice has been razed. Never mind that the rubble includes half a dozen historic monuments supposedly protected by municipal or national fiat. "We can list a building as a national treasure," says Song Xinchao, a deputy director at the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. "But we have no power to enforce punishment if someone tears it down...
...among six dissenters who insist they're being locked out. Matthew Lasar, a professor at the University of California at Riverside who wrote a book about Pacifica, says the longtime advocate for openness and democracy is running itself "in a way that could be described as secrecy and fiat...
Most devastating, they say, would be a delisting of some or all of the 13 national monuments with Clinton's signature on them. This can be done by congressional action--and possibly by presidential fiat, although that has yet to be tested in court...
...Baker, visibly more relaxed before the cameras ever since he's had Florida Chief Justice Charles Wells to quote admiringly, did look especially confident Sunday as he made the rounds. He spent a lot of time defending his old "judicial fiat" attacks on the Florida Supreme Court (back when it was unanimous) as merely "legal arguments," not unseemly ones. He lovingly quoted Scalia, and grabbed a fistful of high ground. "We're not afraid to let every vote be counted," he told Russert. "The issue is, what is every legal vote...