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Playoff hockey historically features tight, low-scoring contests where two or three goals are sufficient for victory. Goals become hard to come by, and referees swallow their whistles and let physical play go unpunished...
Playoff hockey historically features tight, low-scoring contests where two or three goals are sufficient for victory. Goals become hard to come by, and referees swallow their whistles and let physical play go unpunished...
...make motherhood the "single biggest risk factor for poverty in old age," she writes. Her recipe for "bring[ing] children up without putting women down" calls for expensive ingredients: longer paid parental leaves, shorter workweeks, universal preschool, equal income sharing after divorces that involve dependent children. Not everyone will swallow Crittenden's argument whole, but many will savor the tartness of the vigorous public debate The Price is sure to inspire...
...enshrined in the Iraq Liberation Act, toppling the regime in Baghdad never been the policy of the United Nations or of the Gulf War coalition. And, of course, the legislators may be keen to hear what other ideas the secretary of state may have if they're to swallow a significantly softer sanctions regime. There, Powell may be in a bit of a box. While he can ritually intone the mantra of taking steps to change the regime in Baghdad, he also has to be concerned that this is a policy option that causes concern among the Arab states...
...rejigger sanctions against Iraq and over which countries should next get into nato. There's a bumper crop of noisy trade issues too, and all of them tread on sensitive domestic toes: bananas, R and D subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, the genetically modified grub Americans are happy to swallow but Europeans denounce as "Frankenfood...