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Gammons also touched briefly on several contentious issues, ranging from the recent NBA Pacers-Pistons brawl to union negotiations and performance-enhancing drug use, which he said was rampant in baseball in the mid-1990?...
That spending cut (which should mostly attack pre-programmed budget increases) could actually be an opportunity for government reform—an assault on some of the rampant bloat and mismanagement, and 339 taxpayer-funded state boards and commissions, identified by the governor’s California Performance Review...
...Palace intrigue isn't the Dear Leader's only headache. Launched in 2002, North Korea's half-hearted economic reforms have failed to fix its flat-lining economy. Instead, they have fueled rampant inflation and an uptick in public discontent. The country will require outside help to feed more than a quarter of its estimated 23 million people next year, the World Food Program warned last week, despite the best harvest in 10 years. Economic reforms have cut subsidies to households and factories while millions remain out of work. With inflation running at more than 100%, even many people with...
...various occasions, Mansfield said he has spoken up “in defense of academic standards” in response to policies enforced by liberals running the University. Mansfield said that rampant grade inflation, a chaotic curriculum and a profusion of easy courses are issues that he has criticized at Harvard...
Before the campaign was over, Bush would travel more with McCain than with any other politician he was not kin to. Just after McCain squelched the rampant rumors that he might be John Kerry's running mate, the Bush team put him on the road with the President, making the Senator's mere presence a powerful political endorsement for the incumbent. McCain helped draw crucial moderate G.O.P. voters and independents to events where they could be registered and courted by the campaign. He let direct mail go out under his name to swing states. He recorded radio spots...