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However, another option that remains is reconciliation, a complicated legislative procedure that limits debate and amendments on bills and requires a mere 51 votes for passage. While this would circumvent the challenge brought upon by Brown’s election, it would not only be undemocratic but also, according to those familiar with congressional rules, would result in a watered-down bill missing key provisions to expand coverage and protect American insurance buyers. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad explained that “insurance market reforms, all the changes designed to encourage wellness and prevention,” among...
...According to recent studies of French business, the power in the country's largest companies is still dominated by a relatively small number of men. A December review by Ernst & Young, for example, found that a mere 98 people control 43% of the voting power on the boards of the 40 companies comprising France's leading CAC 40 stock index. Not only that, but this dominant corporate core is nearly 80% French - a lopsided percentage, given that nearly 40% of the capital in those businesses is owned by foreign investors. And suggesting that the glass ceiling is still very much...
...this: Name five contemporary European writers, not counting Irish or British. If you're having trouble, there's a good reason - you probably haven't encountered many. Translations of foreign-language works make up a mere 3% to 5% of the books published in the U.S. annually, and that includes new editions of classics like Anna Karenina. Except for a few recent breakouts - Roberto Bolao, Stieg Larsson, Per Petterson - translated authors tend to deliver anemic sales, which makes mainstream American publishers loath to gamble on them. And Bolao and Larsson were dead (both prematurely...
...Donnell said that prior to the volunteers’ arrival, the library systems in the three Caluco schools were either non-existent or severely lacking, with only a few dozen books—most of them tattered—and a mere notebook to keep track of circulation...
...organizers of Learning Through Libraries are in awe at how a mere seed of an idea—the desire to “do something”—has blossomed into a full-fledged project with reverberations truly felt across national borderlines...