Word: tinkers
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With starters Mike Lobach, Kevin Ara and Ladd Fritz sitting out with red card suspensions carried over from Sundays match against Loyola Marymount, Crimson Coach John Kerr was forced to tinker with a starting lineup that was really starting to gel after a 3-1 start to the year. Three freshmen were inserted into the starting lineup, including James Roth, who started his first game in goal for the Crimson...
That leaves Powell to tinker on the margins. He's not averse to walking away from the ABM treaty. He's for Rice's "grand bargain" to couple a new defense shield with way-low offensive arsenals. But he's at odds with the others on how and when to get out of the treaty. He would like to do it more delicately, while making a sincere effort to talk Russia into agreement...
...Considerably distilled, last Wednesday's testimony before the House Committee on Financial Services consisted of three main nuggets meant to move the markets - three messages he may or may not tinker with when he does it all over again for the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday...
...corporate earnings that have left investors professing complete ignorance as when, exactly, things will pick up again. Long-term rates, however, took a dutiful dive after the Fed head's remarks and have mostly stayed there amid the stream of bad news from the equities side. Will he tinker with the message this time around? The overall sense he gave the House - things are pretty bad now, and may get worse, but are probably getting better - is expected to remain the same in front of the Senate...
Some experts say a continental market for electricity, similar to the one that exists for oil and gas, is the eventual solution. But even without a grand plan to support that aim, moves are afoot to tinker with the existing situation. By next year, large regional transmission organizations (RTOS) will be in place across North America to remove some of the jurisdictional clutter. "Right now, if you want to ship power from El Paso [Texas] to B.C., you have to settle 10 or 12 different contracts," says Dennis Eyre, executive director of the Western Systems Coordinating Council in Salt Lake...