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...Ashcroft could make policy by signing an Executive Order, casting his veto or using his bully pulpit. But to make policy in the Senate, he had to cajole and flatter fellow Senators--skills Ashcroft had never mastered. He could also be hard to pin down ideologically: he fought for flex time for workers and cutting regressive payroll taxes. Ashcroft's greatest liability, says a Republican warrior working on his defense, "is the rigidity. There are issues on which there is no other hand. That is what may catch some people up short...
Then politics intervened. James and Nachman sued to contravene the rulings, which the Governor deemed obstructive federal intervention. A hiring freeze left social workers' positions vacant. Nachman refused to disburse "flex funds" that the court allowed counties to spend at their discretion, and social workers had to open charge accounts at Wal-Mart to buy diapers and clothes for children. Nachman later resigned amid controversy over allegations she had lied on her resume and had withheld information from a grand jury investigating whether the foster-care problems in Mobile were the result of criminal negligence...
First of all, these days staying home is relative. Women take varying amounts of time off from paid work to have children, and if they return to work, their schedules may be full time, flex time, part time or occasional. Thus being a stay-at-home mother is often a matter of attitude. Washington lawyer Sharon Rutberg, 41, has continued to work a few hours a week since leaving her full-time job three years ago, yet she considers herself an at-home mother "because the vast bulk of my time, energy and attention are devoted to raising my children...
...both sides are complaining. It's a matter of give and take - no one gets what they asked for." -Richard Dreyfuss With spoils from cable TV and the Internet up for grabs, both sides can be expected to put up a fight. And the amount of muscle SAG can flex here will give the industry a hint of the union's power next year. Says Dreyfuss, "I think there is a legitimate interest on the part of the people who will be involved in that strike to see how strong the union is right...
...anyone else they sounded in the first place. Steely Dan never pandered to the teenyboppers anyway, and if anything their jaundiced worldview sounds more apropos today, even as it has mellowed a bit. Tending a little more to the angular and funky than the hook-laden, Fagen and Becker flex their ever-awesome studio chops to stir things up both musically and lyrically, with the infernally catchy rhythm of the title track and the wistfulness and jaunty lechery of "What a Shame About Me" and "Cousin Dupree," respectively...