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...having a hidden hand in what they regard as the President's too soft position on the Michigan affirmative-action case. For that case, the White House filed a Supreme Court brief opposing the University of Michigan's admissions program but did not push to end affirmative action outright. And Gonzales did not help himself with a speech to a group of Evangelical leaders last year in which he did not strongly call for reversing Roe. The rock ribbed just find him squishy. "He is the counsel to a conservative President rather than a conservative counsel to the President," says...
...enough and investing in research and development will continue to improve productivity, and the others will disappear," says Peter Bauer, Infineon board member in charge of sales and marketing. Analyst growth forecasts for semiconductor sales this year range from a conservative 8.9% at Gartner Dataquest to an outright ecstatic 16.6% at WSTS...
Raines, and the Times, have been the focus of a fire storm of criticism since an internal investigation revealed that one of the paper’s reporters had engaged in large scale plagiarism and outright fabrication...
...girl was trying to put pressure on Courtney and I thought it was working pretty well, but then she just outright missed balls,” Graham said. “You got to give Courtney credit because she got a lot of balls in play and gave her opportunities to miss...
...Inner Mongolia's SARS control office now requires visitors to quarantine themselves for up to two weeks. (That's lax compared with Taiwan, which has slapped outright bans on travelers from the mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada.) China's central government has insisted that the country's internal borders will remain open, but mobs of angry villagers bent on protecting their towns have thrown up ad hoc roadside health checks and blockades. Ming Productions, a film company scheduled to shoot four movies in China over the coming year, has had to postpone much of its slate because of SARS...