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Stefan Thiesen, Selm, Germany Need I explain to a professor from the tiny, autocratic state of Singapore, which was founded by a former European power, that yes, indeed, in the European Union we are free to demonstrate if we deem it right? We are actually free to express our opinion publicly - and noisily...
...parliamentary maneuver that Pelosi is strongly considering and which Republicans vigorously object to (despite having used it themselves often in the past) would have the House "deem" the Senate bill as passed without directly voting on it. The political upside to this is that House members could tell constituents they never voted in favor of the original Senate bill, which contains several unsavory sweetheart deals that the package of fixes would strip away. "The public is already uncomfortable with the process, and this just makes it worse," says Democratic Representative Jason Altmire, who previously voted against health reform and whose...
...deem it the "worst car in history" in the title of your book. Absolutely. That is what it is known as to anyone over 35 who has heard of the Yugo. But I actually believe it is not the worst car in history. If a car is marketed in the United States and sold in the United States, that means it passed certain presale standards. [The Yugo] had to pass a safety test, a crash test. It had to pass an emissions test...
Under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA), which was passed by Congress in October 2008 and which set up the $700 billion bank-bailout fund, the Treasury Department has the ability to officially deem which firms are receiving exceptional assistance from the government. At issue is executive pay. EESA requires the Treasury Department to monitor executive pay at all the firms receiving government assistance. Last summer the Treasury said firms that are deemed to be receiving exceptional aid from the government would be subject to a pay czar. The office, later filled by high-profile lawyer Kenneth Feinberg...
...traditional Catholic views on sexuality. This happens, she asserted, because although the Church’s viewpoint has progressed beyond the myopic notion that sex is for “procreation only,” that is exactly how many Catholic students unfortunately understand it, leading many to deem abstinence as “unrealistic.” Cahill went on to delineate the Church’s current views, but the absence of a key ideological point in her outline that is implicit in both Isserles’s dictum and in Jewish sexual ethics as a whole could...