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...past agreements with the Shah gives the Kremlin a fine rebuttal for any objection raised by the State Department. Moreover, Russian defense contractors, often antique leviathans from Soviet times, strongly pressure President Vladimir Putin not to succumb to “American interests” and to uphold Russian intransigency. Simply enough, Russia gets money, and Iran, nuclear technology...
...addressed the trade-off directly, when he discussed the concern over his domestic eavesdropping program ?We are... a country of law. We have a Constitution, which guides the sharing of power... I put that hand on the Bible, and I meant it when I said I'm going to uphold the Constitution. I also mean it when I'm going to protect the American people.? But he still has the burn marks, he suggests, from an earlier excess of scruple. ?At one point in time the government got accused of not connecting the dots.? He recalled the debates over intelligence...
...time, Alito recommended that the Reagan administration file a brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold a Pennsylvania law that placed several restrictions on doctors performing abortions and required minors who wanted abortions to obtain the approval of a parent or a judge...
...abuses in Colombia and India, respectively, prompted the decision, which will soon leave students without Coca-Cola in campus vending machines and cafeterias. An investigation by an arm of the university had earlier determined that the soft drink company may have violated various standards that Michigan expects vendors to uphold...
...outlines the “primary standards,” including nondiscrimination and freedom of collective bargaining, as well as “preferential standards”—such as a living wage and environmental protection—that the university demands its contracted vendors to uphold...