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...That administrative burden has now been lifted. For Fisher, the reversal is especially gratifying since the restrictive Bush policy quashed her experiments in 2002. After a storm hammered San Francisco that winter, the university campus lost power; if not for the backup generators that pumped emergency electricity to its labs, countless cell cultures might have been lost. Fisher's embryonic-stem-cell lab, however, was off the campus grid, housed in a temporary facility built with private funds, which did not have a backup system. It took several days for power to be restored to that site, during which time...
...passed the highest set of import duties in American history, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The results were disastrous; according to the State Department, “while the tariff might not have caused the Depression, it certainly did not make it any better. It provoked a storm of foreign retaliatory measures… Such policies contributed to a drastic decline in international trade...
Kentuckians have come to expect outrageous statements from Bunning. When the Ohio River flooded parts of Louisville in 1997, Bunning, then a state representatitve from Northern Kentucky, blamed the devastation on the city's failure to raise its flood walls, only to have to apologize when the storm-weary city leaders pointed out that the walls had been up for days. In 2004, he claimed, without any support, that an opponent's staffer had beaten his wife and he at a political event; during that same campaign he reminded voters he had run before with George Bush on the ticket...
...From here on out, every once in a while, an employer will stick his head out of the storm shelter and see a hiring opportunity, and one he can take advantage of without risking his whole business...
...trust in the authorities," says Volodymyr Fesenko, director of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies in Kiev. "There is a risk of a chain reaction leading to what happened in Riga," he adds, referring to when angry Latvians, protesting their government's handling of the crisis, tried to storm parliament in January...