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...done what he should have done," Brown said. "The ethics committee ought to go forward. Pressure is building to resign. But we ought to let the quasi-judicial process go forward...
Asked if Frank had become an embarrassment to the Democratic Party, Brown said: "No, don't think so. There have been issues like this for years in politics. But I think we should let the quasi-judicial process take over, and then we can make some recommendations...
...party suggests that such disputes be settled by the Constitutional Control Commission, a quasi Supreme Court that was created last year...
...desire for equality in Mexico, or less inequality, and a symbol of the defense of the nation in a country where this nationalism question has always been terribly important. If he runs, he will be a formidable candidate for the presidency in 1994: he will continue to have the quasi-religious attachment that he has with the Mexican people...
...NCAR's Van Loon have discovered a relationship between the solar cycle and the stratospheric winds over the tropics. During a 28-month period, these winds reverse direction, blowing half the time from the east, the other half from the west, a phenomenon meteorologists call the QBO, or quasi-biennial oscillation. Depending on the direction of the QBO flow, Labitzke and Van Loon found, solar maximums and minimums seem linked to changes in air pressure, temperatures, the number of storms and perhaps even the size of the notorious hole in the Antarctic ozone layer...