Word: sopped
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...Critics contend that by outlawing the secondary market for everything from VCRs to refrigerators, the law serves as a sop to Japan's large electronics manufacturers. Some of the loudest objections have come from the otaku?particularly video-game collectors, a small but fanatical community supporting a lively trade in classics like All-Star Baseball '97 and Virtua Fighter 2 that only play on older machines. "Worst Law Ever!" screamed Weekly Playboy, a tabloid geared towards young Japanese men. While sellers can submit older products for recertification, and some game platforms?most Nintendo decks, along with later versions of Sony...
...nomination will be seen as a sop to conservatives, but they are thrilled to take it. A memo being circulated among conservatives asserts that Alito "has more federal judicial experience than 105 of the 109 Supreme Court Justices appointed in U.S. history." Progress for America, a self-described independent group that works closely with the White House, planned to have an ad for him on the air within seven hours. At the other end of the spectrum, the liberal People for the American Way said his judicial philosophy "is far to the right." Sen. Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York...
...dismissed the argument, saying the court couldn't tolerate measures that infringed fundamental freedoms merely because they might reduce revenue. However, the advocate general did throw one sop to the opponents. He stipulated that companies should not be able to offset losses from foreign subsidiaries that had received advantageous tax treatment in the state in which they resided. If adopted by the full court, that caveat will prevent companies from taking losses in one tax jurisdiction while simultaneously carrying them forward in another. What next? The European Commission has long struggled to devise a common set of European corporate...
...with a lot of room to lead. His speech last week was striking, and not just for that memorable hug. It could easily have been delivered by a New Democrat, with the exceptions of his empty call for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage-a congressional nonstarter, but a sop to religious conservatives-and his continued refusal to support federal funding for new stem-cell-research lines. No doubt, neither Bill Clinton nor Al Gore would have invaded Iraq unilaterally or lowered taxes on the rich, but this wasn't a speech about that. It celebrated democracy abroad and proposed...
...than to a neocon (although it is expected that the ever present Elliot Abrams will have a hand in this area from his perch at the National Security Council). The neoconservative lockout at State has led to speculation that the U.N. post might be thrown to them as a sop. The rumor last week was Paul Wolfowitz; the rumor the week before was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton. There is a tradition of neoconservative eloquence at the U.N.: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick were excellent U.S. representatives during the Soviet era. And an argument...