Word: giant
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...special interests. You've got to change the tax system, and it has to have several characteristics. One, it's got to be fair. The current tax system is not. And two, in my judgment, it should be paperless for most of the people and get rid of this giant, ineffective bureaucracy we have around...
...would personally -- and I will be discussing this openly with the people and the Congress, and everybody will have his day -- feel that this PAC money, soft money, these giant contributions that you can still make, should be eliminated. But if we do eliminate them, then we have to have a way that people can run for office without having millions of dollars...
...system were willing to work in the new jail, Skidmore enlisted 95 new hires from the area and put them through 160 hours of training. "After six months on the job," he says, "seeing an inmate who messes up, my officers think they have failed." Direct supervision is a giant step for Texas, where sheriffs as a rule act tough and dip snuff. The touchy-feely character of direct supervision may rub them the wrong way. But what is forcing them to take Tarrant County seriously is its cost-efficiency and the mounting evidence that inmates are better managed. With...
...winners of the strike -- if it can be said to have winners -- were the 2.3 million members of the Public Services and Transport Workers' union, one of 16 giant labor combines that encompass most of western Germany's work force. The 5.4% wage hike they squeezed out of the government is, ironically, precisely the amount accepted by the union and rejected by the government when an arbitrator recommended it well before the strike began on April 27. The union's chief weapon was its shrewd, tough-talking president, Monika Wulf- Mathies, who brilliantly calibrated the walkouts to demonstrate the union...
...Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant, cannot penetrate the carefully designed thicket of regulations that keeps its auditors from practicing in Turkey...