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...Each state sets its own absentee voting regulations in line with federal law, often with more stringent requirements for first-time voters...
Absolutely. That's not to say there can't and shouldn't be stringent types of regulations to prevent abuse, protect minors and protect health. But it would be better from a public health perspective, and it would vastly improve the criminal justice system - among other things, by freeing up space and resources for others who are actually engaging in violent crime...
...countries that may be in danger of going the way of Iceland, which was unable to bolster overleveraged banks that failed. Panicked trading Friday in Eastern Europe raised concerns that some emerging economies there could be in trouble. The IMF should set aside many of the more stringent conditions it has imposed on borrowers in the past to encourage countries to draw on its assets...
...remember that the simplest way to address the energy issue to tackle the basic problem: Seventy percent of American oil consumption goes into the transportation sector. Given that the United States currently has the lowest automobile fuel-efficiency standards in the developed world, we need a combination of more stringent regulations, such as closing the “light truck” loophole for sport utility vehicles and creating more market-oriented incentives for the development of plug-in hybrid vehicles and flex-fuel technologies. As high gas prices and a collapsing housing market continue to harm American families...
...appointed to George W. Bush’s cabinet. The secretary’s visit to the IOP gave fellow Cuban-Americans an opportunity to speak with not only a government official but a fellow countryman about the continuing American embargo against Cuba and stringent regulation of travel between the two countries. “How can we show the Cuban people there’s a different way to live if we cannnot travel there to begin with?” Mara I. Rodriguez ’08 said after the event. The recent graduate challenged Gutierrez, asking...