Word: caveats
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Texas has one of the longest - 10 days this year - early voting periods in the country; and the turnout tends to a follow a familiar pattern, says Rice University political scientist and pollster Bob Stein. It's heavy for the first three days and the last three. With the caveat that this year's election is breaking familiar patterns (particularly the magnitude of the numbers voting), Stein says that it will likely benefit Clinton initially. "I expect Clinton would benefit from 'early' early voting only because her polling numbers were higher before the campaign came to Texas," Stein said. "Since...
...suburbs is happening at the same time as the 19th century Industrial Revolution that lured people from the farm to the cities, and also as Progressive Era efforts to rein in the worst abuses of capitalism take shape. I asked Guo if he agreed. He nodded, but added a caveat: "What's different about China is the sheer scale of things. The simple fact is there are still 800-900 million people living in poor, agricultural provinces. That's about three times the population of the United States...
...what is not often included in such lessons is a crucial caveat to the separation of powers: the presidential signing statement. Thanks to the burgeoning use of signing statements—by which the president instructs the executive branch to effectively ignore some parts of a bill—our carefully crafted system is being systematically undermined. Indeed, President George W. Bush has frequently used the practice of signing statements to bypass laws throughout his term, a practice that went virtually unnoticed for five years...
...first place in the Ivy League tonight, so mission accomplished,” Murphy said. “We’re a type of team where our kids play extremely hard and we don’t make mistakes...We feel like we could beat anybody. But, the caveat to that is we have to be a mistake-free football team to do it.”—Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...
...into the season, still waiting for that pristine game to happen. According to head coach Tim Murphy, it’s only a matter of time before it does. “We feel like we could beat anybody,” he said. “But, the caveat to that is we have to be a mistake-free football team to do it. We’re not a dominant football team. We had too many penalties today, and that’s the thing that has to be addressed first...