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...vetoed nearly a year ago by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, a former judge, who then listed 18 clauses he thought violated the constitution. Legally barred from vetoing it twice, Sezer reluctantly signed the law last week, while referring it for court review. Although the legislation was designed to strengthen the powers of the broadcasting authority, most commentators believe the real impetus was to strengthen the media conglomerates, particularly the Dogan organization. Enormous power, they say, will be vested in the hands of the company that owns eight newspapers and two TV stations, and is also involved in banking, tourism...
...over proper reforms should be undertaken in a collegial manner where the well-being of those in need, not party politics, dominates the discussion. Another rabidly partisan display in the Senate, as occurred in 1996, would only detract from the important work at hand—to improve and strengthen the American welfare system...
...board for this year, according to Platts, an energy-industry research service based in New York City. "You'll pretty much see the power-plant cycle stopping dead in its tracks," says John Olson, an energy-industry analyst at Sanders Morris Harris in Houston. Selling off some assets may strengthen the power companies' balance sheets, but it's still unclear whether this will be enough to stave off a power-capacity shortage in the next three or four years, when those canceled power plants would have been coming online. Analysts say the Northeast will be particularly vulnerable to price hikes...
...sorry that so much work by so many colleagues who had hoped to strengthen our presence in South Asian humanities should have come to naught,” he wrote in an e-mail...
...seemed to be a proposal that implied the way to strengthen smaller departments was merging them with larger ones,” Eck said. “Both departments would have had to give up their identities. The issue had not been discussed widely outside of Sanskrit and East Asian. It seemed that the breadth of consultation on the wisdom of this had not been sufficiently wide to go ahead at this time...