Word: walsh
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...topping 30%; and Chávez will have a harder time whipping up anti-yanqui< fervor among his supporters now that the more liberal Barack Obama is about to replace Chávez's conservative archenemy, George W. Bush. "Chávez is envisioning tougher times ahead," says John Walsh, a Venezuela expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, an independent think tank. "In order to gin up his base, he decided he better do this now rather than later, while he can still muster a majority of the vote. He knows that time...
...Walsh adds that Chávez also stands a better chance of winning a new term-limits referendum, which could take place as early as the middle of next year, precisely because he stands a better chance of galvanizing that base than he did last year. "A lot of Chavistas stayed home in 2007 because they knew no matter the outcome, Chávez would still be President the next morning," says Walsh. "This time, they'll feel more urgency, a more heightened sense that their political project is at risk. That will make it very close...
Every December throughout my childhood, my father would rise from the couch on a Sunday afternoon and tell us that it was time to chop down the Christmas tree. But the Walsh men are not outdoorsmen; firmly suburban, we're at most screened-in-porch men. So by cutting down the yule tree, my dad meant climbing into the attic and bringing down the tinsel-covered bits of plastic and tubing, then assembling them into something resembling Tannenbaum form. Yes, though it shames me to say it now, we were a faux-fir family...
...number of Kennedy School alumni have also gotten involved, including Josh Gotbaum, who will lead the Economics and International Trade Team, and Joani L. Walsh, who will serve as a special assistant on the Agency Review Transition Working Group. Peter M. Rouse, who served as Senator Obama’s chief of staff, will now serve as his senior adviser...
...analysis from September shows that the 35-m.p.g. CAFE standard will translate to 27 to 28 m.p.g. under real-world conditions - about the same fuel efficiency that the current CAFE standard purports to enforce. "The program is undermined and the public confidence in policymakers is undermined," says Mike Walsh, the former head of the EPA's office of transportation and air quality. "The real benefit of savings from oil and greenhouse gas emissions is a lot less than what they think...