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...they are up against companies with enormous war chests, have scored victories in unlikely places. Last July, Suffolk County, on New York's Long Island, claimed to become the first county with a Republican legislature to pass a living-wage bill--and did so over the county executive's veto. There, as elsewhere, the ordinance had the backing not only of unions but also of religious groups and ordinary citizens who support a social policy that emphasizes work. The coalition "cuts against conventional fault lines," says Dan Cantor, executive director of New York's Working Families Party, a three-year...
...domestic audience is even more nervous. Instead, Blair and European leaders who hope he will talk some sense into the warlike Bush want to work through the U.N. to reinsert weapons inspectors kicked out in 1998. But unless they get untrammeled access, which is unlikely, Washington will almost certainly veto the deal as a dangerous charade. If the Europeans don't go along with whatever military action the U.S. takes, too bad, says the White House. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning." That...
...Musgrove says he may have to veto the whole budget and start again. The governor tried that tactic last year, and it backfired spectacularly when the legislature overrode him. It was a humiliating defeat, especially for a Democratic governor whose party holds a large majority in the state house. That's just one indication of how ugly the battle over Medicaid has turned...
...domestic audience is even more nervous. Instead, Blair and European leaders who hope he will talk some sense into the warlike Bush want to work through the U.N. to reinsert weapons inspectors kicked out in 1998. But unless they get untrammeled access, which is unlikely, Washington will almost certainly veto the deal as a dangerous charade. If the Europeans don't go along with whatever military action the U.S. takes, too bad, says the White House. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning." That...
...Schröder says he "can't imagine" helping otherwise. If only to build public awareness of Saddam's recalcitrance, Blair backs a campaign to reinsert U.N. weapons inspectors kicked out in 1998. But unless they get free access to anywhere they want to go, Washington will almost certainly veto the deal as a dangerous sop - Eurowimps be damned. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning...