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...getting better, and that further improvements will come at the expense of jobs. Quayle plays a major policymaking role in this area as chairman of the President's Council on Competitiveness, an eight-member panel that, in the name of reducing government impediments to business, has worked to loosen environmental regulations on everything from wetlands to air pollution. The council was influential in persuading President Bush, virtually alone among world leaders, not to sign a treaty to protect endangered species at the Rio conference. The Administration's argument: that the treaty would harm the U.S. biotechnology industry...
...began unreeling the satellite, the tether that kept it attached to the shuttle paid out for about 260 m (850 ft.) -- and then jammed, like a badly wound fishing reel. It jammed again when they tried to pull it in, and rather than risk a spacewalk to try and loosen it, ground controllers decided to pull the satellite back inside...
...like to see the church loosen up," he says. "People don't want to go against the church...
...economic boom that has helped loosen the military's grip may also indirectly restrain more attempts by the generals to hang on through violence -- they have as much to lose as anyone else. Not the least reason King Bhumibol was able to broker last week's compromise was a growing fear on both sides that continued bloodshed would severely damage the economy by frightening away tourists and foreign investors. It simply is not as easy for the military to maintain control of the affluent and educated Thailand of today as it was in the simpler peasant society that the nation...
...Loosen, who was 28 and three months short of graduating from Harvard Medical School, killed himself with a lethal cocaine injection in Texas last April...