Word: coding
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Nathan said that this time last year, people buying The Da Vinci Code provided profits but those readers “weren’t here to stay...
Then, even more audacity. He not only claimed his mandate. He defined it right on the spot. Seizing the third rail of American politics, he promised to reform Social Security with, at minimum, partial privatization. He then added his intention to radically redo the tax code--which includes entertaining such ideas as entirely abolishing the Internal Revenue Service by going to a national sales tax. You cannot get more radical than that. His subsidiary aims, earthshaking in any other context but almost minor in this one, are kneecapping the lawsuit industry with serious tort reform and installing a conservative judiciary...
Nickles: I would think so and hope so. If you're talking about rewriting the tax code or reforming Social Security, it's going to take bipartisan action. Unfortunately, in the past couple years, the Senate has moved toward this idea that we have to have 60 votes [the number necessary to overcome a filibuster] to pass anything. We need to get away from that. It seemed like there was either a filibuster or a threat of filibuster every other day. That should really be relegated to very few exceptions. The Senate wasn't designed to be filibustered on every...
...fired him in 2001. As head of the Our Ukraine opposition bloc, he has become a skilled political adversary, leading meticulously planned demonstrations and framing the election in stark, eloquent terms. "Our choice is very simple," he said just before the runoff. "Either we live according to the code of ethics of the criminal underworld, or we live like free and affluent people...
...said our group is taking the wedge issues of abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research and emphasizing them with Hispanic voters in an attempt "to try to sway the Hispanic vote for George Bush." As a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code, our voter-registration efforts for both Hispanic and general audiences are nonpartisan. We cannot and do not advocate for or against one candidate or party. GLENN WILLIAMS, VICE PRESIDENT FOCUS ON THE FAMILY Colorado Springs, Colo...