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...Labor and Agricultural Development, says, "contract agreements are only the beginning." Technical challenges lie ahead. "We got to turn a ministry that before only served to sign papers into a body that can design energy policy," explains Villegas. "We've got to turn a state company used only to rubber-stamped contracts into the main operator of a huge industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bolivia's Revolution Pay Dividends? | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...more damaging than he imagined. He was determined not to be "swift-boated" again. So he declared: "If anyone owes our troops in the fields an apology, it is the President and his failed team and a Republican majority in the Congress that has been willing to stamp - rubber-stamp policies that have done injury to our troops and to their families." But even Rand Beers, his national security adviser in the 2004 campaign, said: "It's unfortunate that Senator Kerry misspoke. No one who has ever been in combat would intentionally impugn our brave troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Kerry, Still One Step Behind | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...fourth-ranking Republican in the House, Pryce is as clean as they come. But G.O.P.-dominated Ohio is awash in scandals, and her proximity to Foley-tainted Speaker Dennis Hastert has left her exposed to local anger with the party. Kilroy calls her a rubber stamp for Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2006: Election Guide | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...favorites to win. But NASCAR got boring, and our moral compasses were left spinning more uncontrollably than Dale Earnhardt’s last ride. RIP #3. Now we’re stuck on a campus with 6,000 preppy cause-whores who choose their issues by matching their rubber wristbands to their candy-ass outfits. Can’t find something to go with those boat shoes? How about colon-cancer brown, you dickface? Look, activism shouldn’t be a fashion trend. You shouldn’t wear your politics on your sleeve...especially when your shirt...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and D. A. Wallach, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Thinking Globally, Acting Stupidly | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...national level, Democrats have launched a coordinated attack on Taylor for being more concerned with the interests of the G.O.P. and the White House than his home district. "Congressman Taylor has been a rubber stamp for the President and the Republican leadership and in many cases he has been out of touch with western North Carolina priorities," Sarah Feinberg, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told TIME. She pointed to his recent non-vote during the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Taylor had originally said he would vote against the free trade agreement with Central America - which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Heath Shuler Score? | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

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