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...with the extra $4.3 billion the White House desperately needed this week. With Democrats smelling blood in the water in the form of a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal government was billions in the red and would have to borrow money from the Social Security surplus - the "lock box" - to break even this year, finding some extra cash was a political necessity...
...savior of the Palestinians, not least through substantial financial contributions to families of sons "martyred" in the intifada. Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian group who claimed responsibility for Thursday's carnage in Jerusalem, actually termed the blast a "gift" to Saddam. Under those circumstances, unilateral separation without agreements that lock the Palestinian state into various forms of coexistence with Israel could be extremely dangerous...
...characters and punctuation. You won't be able to move them, reread them, download them to your Palm Pilot - and you certainly won't be able to lend them to a friend - without their say-so. So many security systems and cryptographic keys are being developed to lock up your favorite authors, it would make your head spin to list them...
...hungry for cheap industrial sites help keep dollars and jobs from fleeing to the suburbs. Environmentalists too are beginning to see brownfields' redevelopment as a way to preserve pristine spaces in the exurbs. Even the EPA, whose Superfund efforts in the 1980s caused many landlords to fence in and lock up sites, has loosened its regulatory oversight since 1995. While developers could technically still be held liable for past contamination, nonlitigation agreements between Washington and 16 states--including Texas--are a wink and a nod by the feds to encourage the cleanup of sites with lesser contamination...
Twenty years ago, I would have done it, probably in the story's first few weeks--a lock, really, a cinch, given all the elements of the story that are ripe for the taking. The amorous Congressman; the enticement of a tale about another Washington intern; sex in the capital city; sex and politics; sex. Or go a little deeper: a story about the impenetrable nature of public lives or of private lives suddenly blasted with publicity and a sidelight into the missing-persons cases that do not draw national attention--a moral lament about that...