Word: tensing
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The revelation comes at a terrible time for the Transportation Security Administration, the main agency responsible for making the skies secure. The agency has come under fire for failing to issue security rules for the cargo industry, as it was supposed to have done by the end of last year...
Kerry followed through in smaller ways too, giving speech after speech about the laughable mohair subsidies that created virtually no jobs and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars a year. Hollings, who endorsed Kerry before the primary in his home state of South Carolina, admits that conservatives in his...
But there's also a fair amount of idle chatter--and a widespread presumption in the media--about the congenital strengths that Republicans have and Democrats lack in presidential contests. The $200 million Bush campaign bankroll is cited. The 1988 demolition of Michael Dukakis is remembered. Democrats are eternally tangled...
Partly because of extraordinarily generous tax breaks but mostly because of high prices guaranteed by Congress, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, year in and year out, ranks as the country's richest. Pfizer, which for 2002 reported profits of $9.1 billion on revenue of $32.4 billion, earned a return on revenue...
The ironic silver lining in the current wave of violence is that it offers persuasive evidence in support of Washington's argument that elections can't be held before its July 1 deadline for handing power to an Iraqi provisional government. The leaders of Iraq's Shiite majority have rejected...