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...Republicans were getting jittery. So last week Rove and other aides pulled out the green paints and brushes and set to work on Bush's environmental makeover--a series of announcements meant to add some much needed chlorophyll to the President's image. The White House said it would uphold strict regulations on lead contamination, left in place a Clinton rule expanding wetlands protection and backed a treaty banning a dozen harmful chemicals found mostly in poorer countries (but not in the U.S., which made signing it easier for Bush). Rove huddled with Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman...
...PRESIDENT: My job is to uphold the spirit of the Taiwan Relations Act, and I did so - with a very robust package. It appeared to me the Taiwanese were very grateful...
...level employees lack the skills necessary to get better jobs, meaning that their choice to work for Harvard isn’t really voluntary. But the problem with this response is that it offers a positively dismal assessment of people’s ability to improve themselves. To uphold PSLM’s position, it isn’t enough to say that low-level employees are currently unable to command higher wages. Instead, we have to say that they will never be able to do so—that there is something so fundamentally inferior about them that they...
...their housing preferences, so they resign themselves to praying to the River Gods as their only defense against being Quadded. House Committees undergo random annual leadership turnover. And thus, House Masters alone—not decades-old tradition or individual House community—stand as constant pillars that uphold House spirit...
...caught between wanting to uphold the economic opportunities for all our employees and keeping this institution economically viable," said Gomes, who is an outspoken political conservative...