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...lunch counters." The label stuck and helped ensure Bork's defeat. For weeks Progress for America, a conservative coalition that has pledged to spend more than $13 million on television ads to support Bush's eventual nominee, has been running pre-emptive spots that show Senate minority leader Harry Reid calling Bush a "loser" and Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean saying that many Republicans "never made an honest living in their lives." It's all done in the hope of casting Democrats in advance as belligerent knuckleheads whose attacks on Bush's choice, whoever that turns...
Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader, has pushed proposals to enhance security, only to be defeated in the face of industry opposition. One bill would have required plants to defend themselves against a 9/11-size enemy force, perhaps aided by air-and-water-based attacks. Another would have created a federal Nuclear Security Force and a 20-member mock terrorist team to test the plants regularly, The NRC and industry representatives argued against such a federalized force on the ground that the close cooperation between plant operators and guards would be lost if federal employees were protecting the plants. "That...
...response to the proposal, Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher took the microphone and called the idea undemocratic...
...It’s lightweight racing, so it’s always very tight,” varsity stroke Dan Reid added. “You’re never going to get an easy race...
...walkable," mixed-use communities in which residences are a short distance from commercial centers. It also spurred efforts to retrofit cities and towns with what some call "complete streets"--thoroughfares that include sidewalks, bike paths and a protective strip of parked cars or vegetation to shield pedestrians from traffic. Reid Ewing, associate professor of urban studies at the University of Maryland, believes we may be seeing the first fruits of those efforts. After steadily declining for decades, the number of trips Americans made by walking showed a slight uptick in 2001, from 7% of all trips to 9%, according...