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...growing group, they have helped stage publicity stunts including the Million Billionaire March with its check, various other theatrical displays, and the “Get on the Limo Tour,” launched here Wednesday, in which the Billionaires plan to crash political events in so-called Midwest swing states...
...volunteer tour guide, showing customers around the stadium that he first visited as a five-year-old. The M.C.G. - or "the G," as locals call it - doesn't look its best right now. The $A430 million redevelopment of the northern side of the ground is in full swing. But between stops to get his breath, Church explains the sights and shares memories with twinkling eyes. "This place has something about it," he says. "The people who work here . . . it just seems to grab them...
...they can to get rid of them in future primaries. And in states like Florida and South Dakota, they think they have a chance to use the issue to tilt a few Senate races this fall. They plan to introduce as many as a dozen state constitutional amendments in swing states around the country. The Senate debate was merely an opportunity to get media oxygen for this effort. It is an integral part of the Bush re-election campaign...
When John Edwards set out on his first solo campaign swing last week as John Kerry's Veep choice, he showed evidence of a quiet makeover. The candidate, who during the primaries rarely attacked his opponents and then almost never by name, ripped the White House for ducking responsibility for the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The next day he said Kerry's health-care plan was "dramatically different from whatever health-care plan George Bush has; I haven't seen one yet." And Edwards insisted that while he and Kerry were meeting with average voters, "the President...
...hour workweek in 2000, many employers met the requirement by simply adding to their employees' annual holiday allowances. It's not uncommon to find French workers with enough time to take both July and August off from work - paid, of course. Yet just as summer holidays come into full swing, the 35-hour week itself looks like it might get a permanent vacation. Back in 2000, France's Socialist government promised shorter weeks would create jobs. Working fewer hours, it argued, would require more workers to complete a task. Using that noble yardstick, the measure hasn't performed especially well...