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...Wyden, and more notably, it is endorsed by the Direct Marketing Association. Can-Spam would make spamming a federal offense punishable by jail time and fines of up to $1.5 million. But it would also require that complainants have actively attempted to avoid spam by placing themselves on an opt-out list. Critics say opting out could become as disruptive as deleting spam is now. If all 23 million businesses in America decided to send you just one message a year, that would give you 600 emails a day to opt out from. Worse still, unsolicited email would effectively...
...TREATING THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO AS FACT. One official said the process often went this way: the agency would send to the Pentagon three ways to interpret one piece of information, such as a new satellite photo or telephone intercept, and the Pentagon would always opt for the most dire explanation. This inclination accounts in part for the controversial conclusion by the Defense Department that Iraq's aluminum tubes were for the production of uranium for nuclear weapons. Seasoned experts at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California disagreed, but their view--the most expert government interpretation...
...ronique: I opt for my patented ”slink-to- the-back-of-the-crowd” move...
...helping companies manage their finances better. The Family Time Flexibility Act would leave it up to employers whether to pay for overtime in wages (as many union workers can now demand) or in compensatory time. The effect of this change would be to reduce income, since most companies would opt for comp time. Democrats oppose the bill, which nonetheless sailed through a House committee. The other bill would let unionized companies reduce their pension obligations by billions of dollars, further imperiling a benefit that is already eroded and underfunded. New data show that blue-collar workers have shorter life spans...
...take unpopular positions. Furthermore, unlike his father, this Bush is a political animal. He has a clever team. If the Democrats do happen to find a winning issue, you can be sure that Karl Rove, the President's strategist, will figure out a way to trump or co-opt it (as he did with education and Medicare prescription-drug benefits in the election of 2000). And the Democrats enter the fray with all the shape and substance of fog. "People have no idea what we stand for," says Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster. "They have a vague sense that...