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...LISE cleanroom can be described as being in the top tier of university clean rooms,” Martin said. “If cleanrooms were an NCAA facility, ours is definitely Division...
...libertarian ideals.No one understood the plan.In late September, Spitzer motioned to change a Department of Motor Vehicles policy so that undocumented immigrants would become eligible for full driver’s privileges. Days later, he changed the law to meet DHS regulations, proposing in its stead a split three-tier system of licenses: one for basic driving privileges, one for U.S.-Canada border transit, and another federally accepted license that would comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005. The policy change aimed to improve road safety and lower insurance premiums. Even more importantly, the legislation strove to bring...
...transportation costs continuing to plummet and markets becoming freer, there are many more places for companies to set up shop, and traditional advantages such as cheap labor or a lack of tariffs mean less and less in many industries. Multinationals are increasingly opening major operations in second- and third-tier cities - GlaxoSmithKline in Posnan, Poland, Google in Belo Horizonte, Brazil - places that plenty of people have never even heard of. "Companies are adopting an all-shore strategy," says Dennis Donovan, principal of Wadley Donovan Gutshaw Consulting, which helps companies decide where to locate...
...Obama and Edwards have both shown signs of progress of late, attacking Clinton as a polarizing or corrupt agent of the status quo: some 70% of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers are either undecided or not supporting Clinton. But most observers say there isn't room for three top-tier candidates, which means the two won't be able to play nice with each other for much longer...
...Hayden may now be learning that not all IGs are equal. The IG at his previous post as National Security Agency director was among a second tier of IGs, created a decade after the original IG Act of 1978. Appointed by the agency head, they have less independence and investigatory powers and function more like internal auditors than the original batch of IGs that are attached to major government departments such as the CIA. Eleanor Hill, a former Defense Department IG from 1995 to 1999, suggested that the NSA's domestic wiretapping scandal might have been avoided if there...