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...blogs that cover Seattle. "I'll be looking for ideas as we go along," he says. But he's not averse to batting the paper's eyelids at any civic-minded Seattleite with deep pockets. "[The P-I has] so many strengths," he wrote, "and I'm going to hammer relentlessly at them as the online infomercial part of this blog continues in coming days...
...temperatures dropped to record lows outside, freezing rail lines and bringing mass transport to a halt, Merkel has huddled with her political allies and opponents alike to hammer out a new approach. The shift comes after a raft of bad economic news, with the government now pressing ahead on a number of fronts. Merkel's coalition nearly doubled its stimulus package to €50 billion this week and is drafting plans for a €100 billion Germany Fund to provide credit for midsize businesses. And Commerzbank, Germany's second biggest bank, has said it is to be partly nationalized...
...sort of majority-vote proposal from occurring again. The pressure is on for the parties to quickly come up with a working budget before the well runs dry in February. In the meantime, all the political feuding has left the state's citizens wondering exactly when and where the hammer will drop...
...lawsuits on behalf of Molski. (Molski used other attorneys to file his other suits.) Frankovich says Molski began suing only after his letters to offending businesses were ignored. (Molski was out of the country and couldn't be reached for comment.) Says Frankovich: "Letters don't work. Only the hammer of litigation gets them to do what they need...
...know if that's unfair," says the elder Madigan's spokesman Steve Brown, who has been with his boss for 26 years. "He's powerful, but he wields that power with respect and, more importantly, by talking to people. He doesn't use his power as a big hammer over someone's head...