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...Accounting Reform Act allowed for transition funding for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to come from unused SEC funds. However, with the president and Congress continuing to argue over budget priorities, the SEC is not likely to have any funds to spare. “The worst case scenario is that [the accounting board] or we will have to slow down if we find the budget is unresolved by early next year,” the agency has said. Without a budget decision from Capital Hill, all this summer’s reform rhetoric will be in vain...
...gets 50%--and there are nine candidates, three of whom are legitimate G.O.P. hopefuls--the top two finishers go to a run-off on Dec. 7, meaning that it's possible that the Senate could remain locked 49 to 49 to 1 until then. Just in case such a scenario plays out, both parties (having learned a lesson from the last election) have established toll-free hot lines to report voting irregularities. The Democrats have also assembled an army of attorneys to stand by in districts with close races and questionable voter-participation histories, and the Republicans are mobilizing their...
...That scenario [substantial renovations] puts off into an even more distant position the question of a new museum,” Cohn says...
Swift success in Iraq depends on military capitulation. In the worst possible scenario, the Iraqi army makes a desperate stand in Baghdad, forcing a U.S. infantry assault against fortified positions defended with chemical or biological weapons. By co-opting part of the military we can prevent needless casualties among U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. We need to make it very clear to the officers in charge that it will not pay to resist. That is difficult to accomplish when the prize for their cooperation is a trial at The Hague, and relatively easy when they are assured of a place...
...present such an implausible scenario when it could have shown the teens drinking alcohol or snorting cocaine—two drugs which lead to thousands more drug-related deaths per year than marijuana? It’s because marijuana is by far the most popular illegal drug among teens today and its use is on the rise. The Bush administration has foolishly decided to target teen marijuana users and waste billions of dollars each year to enforce what is essentially a harmless drug...