Word: sanding
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There are countless ways to control costs; some of them, like liability reform, won't easily fly through a Democratic Congress. We held our breath as Mr. Obama drew a line in the sand in front of Big Agra and the teachers union last week, hoping against hope he would continue it across the trial lawyers. But the doctors I know wince whenever electronic medical records are held up as some kind of silver bullet...
...about 37 inhabitants per square mile. Not one but five of Pele's volcanoes reside on the island, and one of them, Kilauea, has been continuously erupting since 1983 from a vent known as Pu'u 'O'o. World-class resorts and beaches with black, white or green sand abound, but the real draw for thousands of travelers are the lava spurts and cascades themselves. Visitors drive down the slope from the forested uplands of misty fern to the coastline of cracked rock to watch the molten lava rivers that regularly explode into the Pacific under massive steam clouds...
...failure of the American financial system which has carried the nation through sixty years of prosperity. That system is now fractured mid-axle. It may take a lifetime or more for historians to sort out its causes, and the federal government feels the need to sift through that sand in the name of justice...
...Beach. Less-expensive day-trip options dotted around the archipelago range from Colombia's version of a swim-up bar to a variety of touristy beaches equipped with cooking huts where freshly caught fish is simply but succulently prepared. Everywhere, women tout $8 massages. Beware if you're sunburned; sand and a vigorous rub can really chafe. In a few places, hawkers sell rough strands of pearls - they lack the quality of Asian or Middle Eastern pearls but are still a bargain by U.S. prices. (See the best places to travel in a recession...
...earmarks, White House officials say they fully expect Congress to live up to Obama's campaign pledge of reducing earmarks to below 1994 levels - when the GOP took control of the House - or less than $7.8 billion a year. "They have got to draw a line in the sand, and they didn't do it here," says Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. "They have got to draw it in 2010 or it's irrelevant, whatever the promises are." (The Democratic leadership estimates that there are only $3.8 billion earmarks in the bill, while Ellis' nonpartisan watchdog...