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...trouble begins when those deal-maker roles overlap--when D'Amato collects money from those who stand to gain from his legislation. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he has been pushing the interests of the major banks and brokerages that have poured at least $1.5 million into his campaigns over the years. He has already won passage of a bill that makes it harder for investors to sue fraudulent brokers. (His closest aide, Michael Kinsella, is a former lobbyist for the Securities Industry Association and an active fund raiser.) And he is pushing ahead with the most sweeping...
Einstein argued that as atoms approach absolute zero (-459.67 degrees F), the waves expand and finally overlap; the atoms merge into a single "quantum state." It's extraordinarily difficult to get them to 180 billionths of a degree above absolute zero, though -- the point at which the merging occurs. Thus the Boulder group's feat was a technical as well as a scientific...
...think over the last several years, thatoffice and PBH have worked very carefully andclosely together to eliminate overlap andduplication," Duehay said. "The Maull-Lewis reportassumed that duplication was still there, and Idon't think...
...overlap between the academic and personaladvisory roles appears to be a central issue. theUniversity hires groups of tutors to provideacademic advice in each house, but rarely requestsa counseling background. Nelson said it is notusual for tutors to have counseling experience...
...worked many hours a week at the DunsterHouse library, where her roommate Tadesse alsoserved as a checker, examining students' bags asthey left. Occasionally, the two roommates' shiftswould overlap...