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Many on Capitol Hill insist that scrutiny has not gotten significantly tighter. "The Finance Committee is not doing anything different now from what it has always done under the leadership of either [Chairman Max] Baucus or me," ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa said recently. "We are vetting nominees for the current Administration the same way we vetted nominees for the previous Administration." Finance Committee staffers note, for instance, that Paul O'Neill, who was George W. Bush's first Treasury Secretary, had to pay $92 in back taxes when the Finance Committee noticed that he hadn't reported gifts...
...Lastly, the auto demand curve is a leading indicator out of a recession. Any GDP growth will correlate directly with auto sales - until growth reaches 4%. At that point, sales growth then turbocharges to about 7%, if the past is any measure. Analysts insist that when you combine the replacement demand, scrappage rates, demographic changes and an economic recovery, there's a case to be made that North American demand will approach 16 million units within five years. "We haven't seen this kind of positive force in replacement demand for this amount for a while," says the auto economist...
...against growing trends, VES students insist that the fundamentals of painting are still of utmost importance to their growth as artists. “It’s like trying to write a paper with a third grade vocabulary,” Rojer says. “We have Expos for English classes. Art students want to learn the basics; what makes this any different? I think there needs to be greater respect for the visual and what that means as a tool of communication...
...Many females insist that the buck would stop for them after their first brush with any type of abuse. How do you handle the consistent parade of questions on why you stayed? It's nothing I can explain in a sentence. Instead of asking "Why did she stay," the far more troubling question is "Why on earth would a man abuse the person who loves him the most?" What amazes me is that almost every person whom I talk to asks me a question that turns my stomach: "how does your ex-husband feel about your writing this book...
...daughter-in-law, who have all pleaded guilty to money laundering. His wife's trial began last week. Three of an additional 11 suspects in the case have also made confessions in connection with the bribery and embezzlement charges brought against Chen. But Chen himself continues to insist that any funds the family received were political donations, and that the money was wired overseas by his wife without his knowledge...