Word: overly
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Powell thinks it's only fair that more stimulus money finds its way to minority communities, since much of today's economic disaster can be traced to those areas being lavished with subprime mortgages. Despite recovery.gov, the federal website designed for tracing stimulus outlays, Powell argues, "We need to put...
What they are counting on now, and what they are hoping to inflame, is public doubt. Over and over again on Saturday, Republicans mentioned a new Quinnipiac poll indicating that while a healthy majority of Americans - 61% - are eager to see major changes in the health system, only 1 in...
But the truth is, now that the bill is on the Senate floor, it will be very difficult for anyone to make any significant changes, unless they can muster 60 votes for them. Although there will be a number of skirmishes - over abortion funding, illegal immigrants' access to the new...
The protesters gathered Monday morning to voice their anger over plans to build an incinerator to deal with the rising amounts of trash produced by Guangzhou's Panyu district, whose 2.5 million residents are expected to generate 2,200 tons of garbage a day by next year, a local official...
Environmental concerns are a common cause of unrest in China. Last summer a handful of villages in the country's interior exploded with anger over heavy metal factories residents suspected of polluting the air and groundwater. Those protests were cases of poor residents who, having had their complaints ignored by...