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...every vote to achieve his fast-track strategy, which calls for review by the full committee next week and the House before its August recess. The odds of passage there are considered good. Only then will the issue have a chance to get attention in the Senate, where a similar but weaker bill has already been introduced. Unless it gets bogged down by health-care legislation, the Senate is likely to approve some version of food-safety reform. The best assurance of stronger controls is the fear that inaction could lead to inevitable consequences. "What are they going...
...that the latter requires actual choices and compromise. In the case of health-care reform, Obama at some point will have to deal not only with conservative opposition but also with the expectations of his liberal base. Already, supporters of single-payer health care - a government-financed system similar to that of Canada or Britain - are complaining that they have been shut out of the conversation. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...civilian management read the Baghdad chief's conclusions, they raged, dismissing the analysis as "defeatist," even going so far as to accuse the chief of being a closet Democrat. The chief came home, but that did not stop his successors, CIA officers from the ranks, from sending in similar bad news every 60 days...
...University officials have long alluded to the need for further layoffs, which have been rumored to take place by the end of the summer.Galvin said that it is "premature" to predict when workforce changes will take place. He also said that discussions are continuing about the feasibility of a similar early retirement incentive for faculty members, but said that creating such a program is "a complex proposition that will require extensive deliberation by the deans and University leadership."Similar staff early retirement incentive programs have been used at Dartmouth and Cornell in recent months as well. At Cornell, 423 staffers...
...Others are taking note. Last week, Gavrilova's cousin called from the Siberian city of Irkutsk to ask if Pikalyovo was "leading a civil war" and to say that the situation was similar in her city, where workers were holding a hunger strike over unpaid wages at the local pulp mill, also owned by Basic Element. This time it took no prodding from Putin for Deripaska to announce plans to pay out some $2.8 million in back wages to about 2,000 workers. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...