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...medical use. The design's details included surgical rooms and various security features, such as bullet-proof glass. Construction proceeded. In July, however, local newspapers reported that Gemini is, in fact, a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood's local branch. Still, in August, the city routinely issued a temporary permit allowing the $7.5 million clinic to open on Sept. 18 with just two relatively minor provisions: install more exit signs, as well as glass at service counters. There seemed to be little legal questions about it at the time: It is normal for commercial concerns to use subsidiaries to conduct business...
...close vote makes it to the floor of the Senate, Bush can allow most of the moderate Republican Senators who are up for re-election next year - Norm Coleman of Minnesota, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Gordon Smith of Oregon - to vote with the Democrats. That would permit endangered Republicans to strike an independent pose with voters and still enable Bush to sustain a veto in the House...
...surpassing last year's levels. An avalanche of new progress reports is interpreted by both proponents and opponents of U.S. policy as validation of their positions. Even the President's comments about troop levels can be confounding: Bush made the trip in part to pressure a reluctant Congress to permit his 30,000-troop surge, announced in January, to continue a while longer. And yet it was Bush who, during his brief visit to Anbar, hinted openly that troop withdrawals might begin soon. He told reporters that General David Petraeus informed him that "if the security situation continues to improve...
...strong brigade and its supporting personnel a month. The timing is strategic and political. Pentagon personnel predict a massive drop in recruiting and retention in April if troops overseas aren't given long-promised breaks to go home. The political clock is ticking too. A partial springtime withdrawal would permit the White House to signal six months before the 2008 election that it is bringing...
...region's history did lead it to embrace the one-term presidential limit for much of the latter 20th century. But in the past decade, five major South American countries, including the biggest, Brazil, have changed their constitutions to allow re-election; and one of them, Colombia, may even permit a third term...