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...Supreme Court seat he eventually offered to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a face-to-face meeting at the time -- which took place just days after Breyer had suffered two broken ribs from being struck by a car while riding his bicycle -- Clinton found the judge to be "stiff and a little too eager," says a White House official involved in the selection process. "He also came across as very much of an intellectual ! who flits from issue to issue, whereas Ruth Bader Ginsburg was dispassionate, quiet and grounded. Clinton thought you would hire Steve Breyer to be a law professor...
...matter of weeks, amidst stiff lobbying assaults, Congress has approved several bills limiting where you can smoke and what you can shoot...
...parking garages and movie theaters and could soon be the way that Americans pay their taxes, if industry lobbyists prevail. But since card issuers charge an average of 16.5% while the irs extracts only 7% for late payments, consumer groups warn that taxpayers should be wary. So far, stiff interest rates have done little to curb the use of plastic. The number of Visa and MasterCards in use has climbed 3% in the past year, to 225 million, while credit-card transactions have jumped 7.3%, to 1.7 billion...
Establishes stiff penalties for those convicted of fraudulently labeling products "Made in America...
When France's stiff antismoking laws took effect in late 1992, people girded for some of the nastiest civil unrest since the storming of the Bastille. Smokers, who represent more than one-third of all Frenchmen over age 12, cried "Egalite! Liberte!" and vowed to puff on. They should have saved their breath for the next cigarette. Despite laws that severely restrict the number of public places where French smokers are allowed to puff their Gauloises, they continue to light up with impunity virtually everywhere. Designated nonsmoking areas in offices and restaurants are routinely ignored, as are curbs in public...