Word: tweaks
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...methods Beijing uses to try and dictate what its populace reads, watches and hears about events in their own country are a key element of how the Communist Party maintains power. But as the world economic crisis deepens and unrest becomes more widespread, the central government has had to tweak how it wages its propaganda war. Just how successfully it manages to control the way events unfold will become increasingly critical in preventing isolated cases from turning into the kind of large-scale civil unrest that threatens the party...
...come up with new products," he said. He thought, however, that we should bring the price down to 16 córdobas, which is about 80¢. But Freddy assured me that in his neighborhood, that price would still make our cupcakes obnoxious luxury items. He also suggested that we tweak the name of the shop to Freddy and Joel's Extreme Cupcakery, since Freddy claims he's better known than I am in Managua, which I pretended to believe. When we started to talk about cupcake flavors, Freddy suggested vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, pineapple and banana. From my experiences in cupcake-eating...
...think it’s really important to tweak the policy in such a way that there would never be a disincentive for people to seek medical attention when they need it,†the source continued...
...dates back to President Ronald Reagan, no friend of regulation himself. Currently there is a 100-foot buffer zone around streams, designed to protect them from the polluting byproducts of mining operations. The White House would extend that protection to other bodies of water, like lakes and wetlands, but tweak the regulation in way that could allow significantly more water pollution overall, by effectively reclassifying valley fills and other waste from mining as non-pollutants. That's damaging to mountaintop areas, especially in the coal-rich Appalachians. "It really takes the buffer out of the buffer zone," says Joan Mulhern...
...doesn't help that President Bush seems bent on dismantling as many of the nation's environmental regulations as possible before his time runs out. With less than three months to go, the White House is looking to tweak regulations that will make mountaintop mining easier, ease catch limits for certain kinds of fish, lighten the regulation of drinking water and potentially allow power plants to emit more greenhouse gases. "We already know this Administration has a deep, unwavering ideology of deregulation," said Representative Edward Markey, the chairman of the select committee on energy independence and global warming. "With scant...