Word: dealing
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...James C. Coleman '03, a member of the census work group, says he thinks most students understand that the council should deal with both types of issues...
...vote is not a done deal yet. Some two thirds of Democrats are still solidly against, and enough GOPers are hung up on human rights and nuclear secrets to keep the White House in suspense on whether it'll meet its target of 150 Republicans and 70 Democrats to ensure passage in the House next week. A suspense, says Branegan, that Republicans are in no hurry to dispel. "The White House believes that the Republican vote-counters are holding back their true numbers," he says. "The lower their count is, the more Demorats the White House has to lean...
...Klein has invited lawyers for both of the betrothed to come to his office and defend the marriage, but MCI Worldcom isn't wasting any time making the deal look more palatable. The company reiterated that it is willing to sell all or part of its Internet "backbone" - the switching-provider part of the deal, which also worries European regulators - to help soothe antitrust regulators. A spokesman said Thursday that the company currently is in the process of defining exactly what business units are a part of that backbone and spinning them off into a separate division. Meeting the feds...
...have to figure out what to do with him. And as long as Sankoh's men continue to hold some 350 U.N. peacekeeping troops hostage, that's an acute dilemma. The Sierra Leoneans, who sentenced Sankoh to death in 1998 before being obliged by an abortive peace deal to make him vice president, may be inclined to punish him for his innumerable crimes - a sentiment reflected in reports that he was paraded naked through the streets of Freetown by Sierra Leonean troops before being handed over to British paratroopers to be flown to a secret location. But the immediate priority...
...fuel crunch by curtailing production and rendering diesel fuel prohibitively expensive - an increase of at least 10 cents per gallon, by most estimates. "Oil companies generally resist regulation by predicting disastrous short-term effects," says TIME international editor Charles Alexander. "And there could well be short-term shortages to deal with, but the market will adjust; it always has before. The EPA is taking the long view on pollution, which is exactly what they should be doing." Unfortunately for its opponents, the EPA proposal may not encounter much resistance on its path to becoming law; the Clean Air Act permits...