Word: solider
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Howard's fans are right to claim that overstuffed government code books could use a good going-over. The tricky part is arriving at a principle--or, to use the dirty word, a rule--to guide the housecleaning. Without solid and even confining rules for the bureaucrats we spend so much time complaining about, who is ready to trust them to exercise their power? And without well-crafted rules that ensure strict, maybe even overly strict, compliance, how do we prevent a return to the worst days of polluted water, unwholesome foods, bad air and bloody assembly lines...
...legend, wearing bright red pants, hit a solid drive over the small pond and onto the green, much to the crowd's approval. And then he waved, acknowledging the gallery as he walked to his ball...
...selecting shielding material for any shelter, sand or earth can be substituted for concrete or brick, but for each inch of solid masonry you will need an inch and a half of sand or earth. Adding shielding material to a shelter will improve the protection offered by the shelter, but it also may increase the cost of the shelter...
...less empty talk and more solid action? Why don't those people in Washington who work day and night to produce a million-word-long report every year since 1977 devote at least part of their energy and money into solving some practical questions...
...power) than it does now. The most popular version, sponsored by Representative Bill McCollum of Florida, would limit House and Senate members to 12 years in office once the measure is ratified by the states. But even its proponents admit that they have only about 185 solid Republican votes and 35 Democratic votes for the measure--70 short of the 290 needed to amend the Constitution. According to the Term Limits Legal Institute, approximately 35 of the G.O.P. holdouts--including nine committee chairmen--have spent an average of 14 years in Congress already. Of those, 13 voted...