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...finance our campaigns," McCain says. "And you're never going to get rid of pork-barrel spending and make government smaller until you remove the special interests that dominate our political process." Sources close to McCain say he and his co-sponsor, Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, will threaten to bring Senate business to a halt this month unless G.O.P. leaders bring up the bill for debate and a vote...
...faced before. Rising interest rates are a big deal. The 30-year Treasury-bond yield popped over 6% last week, its highest level in more than a year, and could well stay there. Speculative stocks (and Internet defines the category) tend to get hard hit when higher rates threaten to slow the economy and the market. There are also basic questions about Internet bellwethers, including AOL (Will AT&T shut it out of cable access?) and Amazon (Can it reverse slowing revenue growth...
What the students don't understand is that across America, team owners are the new children of poverty. With mighty tantrums, the owners threaten to blow town if they don't get new stadiums. Skeptics in Connecticut got wise earlier this year and put the kibosh on a plan to lure the New England Patriots to Hartford with $375 million in subsidies for a new ball park...
...easier for us to deal with the University because it's harder for them to threaten to outsource all its clerical and technical workers," says Donene M. Williams, past president for nine years and current treasurer of HUCTW...
Radcliffe begins to threaten the Wilson might step down form the presidency soon; they want a solution. Recognizing that Rudenstine and Sheerr have gone as far as they can for the time being, Fineberg and Wallach begin their interactions...