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Congressional interest in those documents increased last week when House Democrats discovered what they think may be a subtle but significant last-minute change in Bush's energy policy, made before it was submitted to Congress. According to Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, language was added to the final...
The Person of the Year is the one who, for better or for worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year. But when Ayatullah Khomeini was chosen, many readers could not accept the "or worse" provision. Khomeini's fundamentalist Islamic revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran and gripped the...
He promised to lobby the board of directors to make Parsons CEO of AOL Time Warner. The sweetener: Levin confided that he didn't intend to serve out the two years left on his contract. In fact, Levin had quietly inserted a provision allowing him to step down on just...
That 1997 change included a provision that it be reviewed in five years, prompting the current review.
It all started simply enough: a tax-exempt corporation had purchased some of the most valuable property in the area. The loss to the tax base was substantial, and it threatened the provision of basic services. The dispute was followed by others like it, and the controversy quickly became a...