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...Another pillar of Reagan's approach was to get government out of the way of growing businesses. Deregulation had started tentatively under Carter with the airlines, but Reagan applied it broadly, to energy and broadcasting and butressed it with a dismantling of antitrust laws. Reagan was a staunch free-trader and did little to stop the onslaught against sluggish American corporations from aggressive Japanese manufacturers. Reagan's term coincided with the height of Japan's economic boom, and his instinct was that in the long run, it would be better to let most companies fend for themselves...
...countless others, the Center has a symbolic role: it is the home of a vibrant interdisciplinary community pursuing solutions to global challenges and encouraging students in their quest to do the same. Losing the CID would dismantle the University’s strongest pillar of research and innovation in the field of sustainable development, and deal a major blow to future undergraduates who aspire to affect positive change in the developing world...
...hunt down the rebels. But Kadyrov had enemies of his own, from committed separatists who regarded him as a Kremlin stooge to some Russian security and military officials wary of his growing autonomy. One of those foes killed him on May 9 by placing a bomb inside a concrete pillar beneath the stands at Grozny's Dynamo Stadium, where the former mufti was attending a ceremony to mark the anniversary of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany. Six others died in the blast and up to 89 were injured, including General Valery Baranov, the commander of Russian troops in Chechnya...
...Trey has just been a pillar of consistency,” junior first baseman Marc Hordon said...
...don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile—a hijacked airplane as a missile.” That pillar of her case that nothing could have been done better by the administration soon crumbled, after critics pointed out that a madman tried to fly a plane into the White House in 1994, that the Pentagon had set up an entire study on the possibility of terrorists using planes as bombs...