Word: omnibuses
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...Italian media magnate-turned-premier Silvio Berlusconi to Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, played badly back home. But how much worse it looks for high-born Osborne in this new age of austerity when Tories are desperate to prove themselves in tune with the Man on the Clapham Omnibus - that's Britspeak for Joe the Plumber...
...prohibiting "single uses of vulgar words" where it had previously made allowances for "isolated and fleeting" incidents. The Commission cited three incidents as examples: Fox's 2002 and 2003 broadcasts of the Billboard Awards and NBC's 2003 broadcast of the Golden Globes. In 2006, the FCC issued an "omnibus order" reiterating its ban on single-use violations. Fox complained to the Second Circuit Court, citing the First Amendment, and the Court struck down the FCC's ruling as arbitrary. What's at Stake: In striking down the FCC's ruling, the Second Circuit Court essentially calls for the Commission...
...America, and his reservations about it, found their final expression in Alexandria...New York, where an old filmmaker runs into an American woman he'd loved a half-century before. Yet Chahine always made distinctions between the American people and the U.S. government. In his contribution to the 2002 omnibus film 11'09"01: September 11, shown at the Toronto Film Festival on the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, he floats the argument that Islamic militants had the right to kill civilians in the U.S. and Israel - because these are democracies, where the people choose their leaders...
...taken a life of it's own. I'd been talking about it for 10 years and I'd been looking for supporters and now they're all over the place. We passed, gosh, all kinds of things. A lot of them got taken out in the [$555 billion omnibus spending bill sent to the President in mid-December], but the House passed a whole slug of things that were just incredible... I have succeeded beyond my wildest expectations and then it comes to a point where: what more can you do? And I felt that way in Congress...
...immediately noticeable—clinics are already citing plummeting sales, and many students have reported switching to alternative birth control methods, like the morning-after pill, that are less ideal. Although some lawmakers have recognized this new provision as an unintentional and undesirable consequence of legislation tacked onto the omnibus 2005 act, some there are some who actually support the price hike. They argue that the original system encouraged women to use more expensive brand-name drugs at government expensive when cheaper generics would be just as effective. Moreover, some dismiss concerns over the price increase as insignificant, claiming that...