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...SHRINK-WRAPPED...
...America is to shrink so longstanding a right, this change should come from a congressional law, not a mere executive regulation. In the wake of Sept. 11, Congress passed a comprehensive anti-terrorism statute. But this law, the USA Patriot Act, said nothing about restricting traditional lawyer-client confidentiality. As finally adopted, the Act softened several of the Bush Administration's initial proposals that most worried civil libertarians. These adjustments were part of the healthy give and take of the democratic legislative process. Ashcroft's regulation simply sidesteps the Constitution's careful system of legislative checks and balances, and indeed...
...price war at the cost of profits," Yang said during a recent press conference. (Legend executives declined to be interviewed for this story.) Moreover, the company has entered a period when operating inefficiencies can no longer be papered over by soaring revenue growth. Computer sales growth in China will shrink to as little as 5% this year from 27% last year. While faster growth will return with an upturn in China's economy, the market may be settling in for a period of solid, albeit more staid, annual gains...
Clark and other faculty developed a sweeping strategic plan to reshape teaching at the school, including the plan to grow the faculty and shrink class sizes...
...only when Osama's look-at-me videos were released that Americans got a chance to take the true measure of the man. As we did, he seemed to shrink on sight, tediously repeating his deeply held belief that the world would rejoice as America burned. But America wasn't burning and the world wasn't rejoicing and wasn't Osama starting to look a bit gaunt, muttering his threats into his camcorder as his followers scattered and his sponsors fell...