Word: fluxes
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White House advisers tell TIME that the agenda for 2006 is in flux and that senior aide Karl Rove is still cooking up ideas. But the initiatives they have settled on sound more like Clinton's brand of small-bore governance: computerizing medical records; making it easier for workers to take their health benefits with them when they leave a job and--an idea that captured Bush's imagination in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina--giving a boost to Catholic and other private schools as an alternative for inner-city children. While Bush still hopes to sign an immigration bill...
...social space that the completion of the Lamont Café and the Loker Pub will herald.As for Hilles itself, the furor raised by some student groups on Monday about the layout and amenities of the offices themselves was overblown. The plans for Hilles are still in a state of flux. On Monday, Dean McLoughlin presented plans for offices that had no doors, and whose walls were formed by Hilles’ teak bookshelves. Student groups were understandably concerned about the privacy of offices with no locking doors and bookshelf-walls that are far from soundproof. In the coming days, however...
...very nature, politics is in a perpetual state of flux as new information is constantly released. In the current Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential and vice-presidential campaign, several events have recently transpired that call into question the conduct and leadership ability of John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07. In light of these developments, we withdraw our endorsement of their candidacy.Since we interviewed all of the candidates and decided to endorse Voith and Gadgil, their campaign has been embroiled in two controversies. The first involves an e-mail sent out by a Voith...
...That's possible because the relationship between Church and state has been in flux for well over a decade. In postwar Italy, the Christian Democrats held or shared power in every government until 1992. But despite its leaders' intimate ties to the Vatican hierarchy, the party continued to stress the secular nature of politics. Its collapse after a bribery scandal in the early 1990s created a diaspora of former Christian Democrats into rival parties, and fierce competition among erstwhile colleagues. Each sought to demonstrate greater fidelity to the Church and better connections to the Holy See. "There was a whole...
Regardless of how critics perceive Theron’s role in “Flux,” the experience is already a personal success for the actress, who has adhered to her role-selecting creed: “The most important thing always has just been to be true to myself and to do work that really means something...