Word: whips
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...Clinton's last-minute rules that labor leaders said could have prevented as many as 500,000 workplace injuries a year - most due to repetitive stress. Republicans voted en masse to revoke the regulations, which they argued created undue burdens, primarily financial, for businesses. After exhaustive lobbying by Majority Whip (and repeal effort sponsor) Don Nickles, the GOP bloc was padded by votes from six moderate Democrats, including high-profile consensus builders John Breaux and Mary Landrieu, both of Louisiana...
Republicans, who've been itching to reverse many of Clinton's 11th-hour regulations and executive orders, have decided that the OSHA rules will be their first target. Using the obscure Congressional Review Act that he got passed five years ago, Senate Republican Whip Don Nickles wants to have a vote this week to overturn the regulations, which went into effect Jan. 16. Businesses are howling that the 1,688 pages of standards they must meet could cost over $100 billion a year. But the opposition, citing figures of 600,000 people a year laid up by the injuries...
...parents often wonder what they should say. Thus, as a service to junior parents, we are providing a list of questions to take with you to your panel discussions and official welcomes. And should you encounter an administrator over the course of this weekend, flag him or her down, whip out your copy of The Crimson and start asking some of the following...
Second semester is less than a month old, but fair Harvard already has my classmates in harness, and she's laying on the whip. The fleeting pleasures of intersession have been forgotten, and from Pfoho to Dunster everyone is diligently plowing ahead toward midterms and beyond. Not a moment can be wasted, not when there are job applications to fill out, interviews to undergo, labs to perform, papers to write and never ever enough time...
...such fellow best-selling writers as Stephen King, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom, who give charity concerts, usually for literacy projects. Tan's trademark song, which she performs in dominatrix gear, is a version of Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking. This high-stepping, whip-cracking woman worries about breaking crystal wineglasses? "I am," Tan says, conjuring a lifetime of joys and sadnesses, "my mother's daughter...