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...threaten countries now? Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based Centre for European Reform, says any attempt to stick with the pact through the global economic crisis could unleash a political crisis. "Against a backdrop of recession or economic stagnation, painful spending cuts would be extremely difficult for any government to sell to voters," he says, questioning whether such reductions would even succeed. "Drastic cuts in spending or [raising] tax risks deepening the recession, which would in itself prevent an improvement in the fiscal position...
Whenever the puck got away, they got to it first. Whenever a rebound appeared, they made sure they had it back on their stick. When fighting the Clarkson Golden Knights Saturday at Bright Hockey Center, the Harvard women’s hockey team showed that it wanted it more.The No. 9 Crimson (17-9-3, 16-4-2 ECAC) claimed its second straight ECAC regular-season title on Senior Day, defeating the Golden Knights (16-12-6, 10-8-4), 6-1, in an action-packed game that had both an onslaught of shots and penalties...
...party struggling to reinvent itself. But at 45, the baby-faced Cantor is hardly new to the scene. A player in House leadership for seven years, he has raised more than $16.5 million for himself and his colleagues in the past three election cycles - the carrot to his ideological stick when he's keeping his conference in line...
...police raided the outfit's offices in 2006, the war of words - and legal threats - had been years in the making. And no wonder. The three main defendants certainly have Hoffman's flair for the dramatic, and more than a share of the late Yippie leader's propensity to stick it in the eye of the establishment. The site proudly displays its amassed correspondence from corporate lawyers who have written by the dozen to give notice of copyright infringement. Take this response in 2004 to complaints by the U.S.-based gaming software giant Entertainment Arts: "Hello and thank...
...daily basis. Since October, gunmen have killed 21 soldiers and officers, including a recently retired general who was assassinated in the resort of Cancún earlier this month. "The army used to be seen as the government's great deterrent," Crespo says. "But now what is the big stick that can be used against the cartels? Foreign intervention...