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...Collins, 52, is less lonely at lunch, she's still often looking for more G.O.P. allies when she votes. Today's U.S. Senate contains only four solidly moderate Republicans (Collins, Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee, Maine's Olympia Snowe and Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter). They increasingly face pressure from fellow Republicans to conform. But in a closely divided Senate, their votes can be determinative. Which is why G.O.P. Senators seeking to end judicial filibusters heavily courted Collins' vote as she remained uncommitted...
...time. "We made a courtesy call to GM senior management and had a friendly conversation," he says. "They said, 'welcome aboard.'" In a perverse way, Kerkorian may be the bogeyman GM needs, allowing CEO Rick Wagoner to play the good cop in negotiations with GM's union, with the specter of a Kerkorian-led breakup in the background. GM can now go to the United Auto Workers and say "you can deal with nice Rick Wagoner or Gordon Gekko," says auto analyst Stephen Cheetham of Bernstein Research...
...halt. The UCRC’s recommendation to raise to two-thirds the number of votes required for consideration of certain amendments addresses this balance. Our only concern is that the two-thirds threshold (up from one-third) is too high; the new requirement will eliminate the specter of one committee (totaling roughly one-third of the UC) consistently bogging down debate, but we worry that it could demand too many others to support often-needed examinations of controversial proposals. While we defer to those more familiar with the dynamics of UC debates to set the two-thirds limit...
Human ESCs may not at present be transplanted into an early human embryo--a promising avenue for therapy but one that raises the specter of bioengineered humans...
...ornate state dining hall of Malacañnang Palace, the Rev. Jerry Falwell rose to salute President Ferdinand Marcos for standing tall against the specter of Communism, a compliment the right-wing U.S. evangelist had a few weeks earlier bestowed on South Africa's State President P.W. Botha. "Had it not been for the Marcos family," Falwell told an audience that included the First Couple, government supporters and officials, "the chances are that the freedoms you enjoy today would not be here." Falwell later shook his finger at the Reagan Administration for "bellyaching" about the need for financial and military reform...