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...them would increase the deficit or force greater cuts in other programs. Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Appropriations chairman Bob Livingston are vehemently opposed. Attempts by Newt Gingrich to reconcile them and Shuster have come to naught. Meanwhile, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan broke with his custom of staying neutral to advise against passage...
...polite but as brief as he could manage it. Somehow, he didn't seem the angry threatening kind of person. If we ranked [all of the suitemates], he wasn't the one we dislike the most. He was neutral, just a big mystery," McIntosh says...
Most people treat the term "freshman" as gender-neutral. One does not say "freshwoman." But it is difficult for female first-years, many of them struggling to establish their identifies as woman and as Harvard student, to hear the term "freshman" day after day during their first year at Harvard. At a university where "old boys" is used as an adjective for everything from locker rooms to architecture, changing the term is the least Harvard could do to make its female students feel more comfortable...
...many Harvard females get along fine with commonly-used terms that happen to end with the suffix "-man." For instance, no Harvard or Radcliffe women's athletic team uses gender-neutral terms, i.e., nobody says "person of defense" instead of "defenseman." The word "freshman" no longer has any sexist connotations...
Sandel went on to address the view he sees in America that the government should be neutral on moral and religious issues...