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...study released by the Open Europe think tank Monday estimates that the cost of the package as a whole will rise to almost $100 billion a year by 2020. Open Europe Research Director Hugo Robinson said the climate change plan "comes at exactly the wrong time for hard-pressed families all around Europe," and "will channel money towards very expensive and inefficient means of reducing CO2 emissions, imposing unnecessarily high costs on people struggling through already tough economic conditions...
Bailout Fallout This notion of a government bailout is not a question of liberal vs. conservative but one of right or wrong [Oct. 6]. This one is wrong. The burden will fall on the people who need this money much more than greedy executives do. The executives should go down, just as any of us would have to. I realize the economic implications, but this country was built on sacrifice, and we may have to sacrifice again. Nicholas Gamba, Sayreville...
Riley: [Clinton] knew this was a wrong thing to do. All right, that's a character failure. But there is also a temperamental failure, which is a lack of discipline and a lack of what for a better term would be an inability to learn from past experience, an inability to adapt to a hostile environment. I mean, this is somebody who's extremely, extremely bright and yet in this particular instance could not see that all of the previous failures or all of the previous difficulties that he had had with this issue would come crashing down around...
...sort of want to see both of those personalities or temperaments blended together. You've got a kind of a hot and a cold, and maybe this is an example where the framers of the original Constitution had it right and the framers of the 12th Amendment had it wrong. Before we adopted the 12th Amendment, the President was the candidate who got the most votes, and the Vice President was the candidate who got the second most votes. And because of the advent of political parties, that turned out to be a very bad idea. But in the current...
...soggy paper, and for about half the population, it is faintly bitter. The remaining 25% of the population, the upper echelon of tasters, experiences the strip as unmistakably, repulsively bitter. Believe me, I practically chewed on that paper hoping that it would start tasting like something. But was I wrong to wish I could taste more?“Supertasters” are those who experience heightened sensations from food and beverages. They are extra sensitive to bitter tastes, textures, carbonation, and spice; tend to avoid foods such as spinach, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and strong coffee; and often abstain from...