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Building on this victory, congressional supporters of campaign finance reform have introduced two other significant measures to fix additional problems with the system. The first seeks to shore up public funding for presidential campaigns, which provides candidates with matching public funds if they adopt voluntary spending limits. The current upper bound to these funds is too low—a fact illustrated by George W. Bush’s, Howard Dean’s and Sen. John F. Kerry’s decisions to forego federal funds in their primaries. This proposal is a necessary outgrowth of the BCRA, since...
...elegant executive floor, and he quickly eliminated perks like cell phones and newspaper subscriptions. "Jamie doesn't care whom he pisses off," says a former Bank One executive. "As soon as he walks in the room, he is by his own estimation the smartest guy there." He moved to shore up the bank's balance sheet by tightening credit standards and dumping bad loans, and he wooed customers with free checking and online bill paying and eliminated fees for using a live teller rather than an ATM. Wall Street rewarded his turnaround of Bank One with a near 60% jump...
...four miles in three hours ... [After] she had been swimming for eleven hours, the water blackened fast. a squally rain whipped the broken seas that, running out with the tide, slapped her in the face ... For two hours the current would run against her ... She was no nearer the shore. For two hours, with truncheon legs that never stopped kicking, with failing arms that beat on, she had been swimming in a treadmill ... Suddenly, deliciously at her back, she felt the lifting current that would sweep her ashore ... The pale cliffs of England ... blazed with light. Bonfires were flaming there...
...skilled labor is an asset like any other. It wasn't always that way. Duncan Meldrum, Air Products' chief economist, recalls a time when it responded to competitive pressure with across-the-board layoffs, a policy he thinks was a mistake. "It doesn't work," he says. "You may shore up your margins, but you lose an awful lot more than you gain." Now the company looks more carefully at its business during the down times, selling off parts that aren't working--such as gas delivered in cylinders for welding and metal fabrication--and retraining workers whenever possible...
Some would say that the more progressive concerns expressed by the rugby team should be quelled in order for us to shore up support for a candidate who can beat Bush. But I think that the team’s words of warning about the perils of politics-as-usual couldn’t come at a better time. In a moment when the center beckons to candidates (and of course this side-stepping may only get worse after the primaries), Radcliffe Rugby’s opinions matter most. We could sit around all day and debate whether Dean?...