Word: directives
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...federal courts to intrude in state elections--and an unconvincing one. As the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals noted in rejecting it, Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution expressly provides that each state may select its presidential electors "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct." That's another way of saying that the states call the shots in presidential elections...
Buyers and large vendors aren't the only firms tapping these exchanges; small-business sellers also recognize the benefits. For 15 years, Gordon Clotworthy's company, the Information Refinery, based in Mahwah, N.J., has sold marketing lists to small businesses in the Northeast, finding customers through costly direct mailings and trade-magazine ads. Earlier this year, Clotworthy discovered Onvia, a Seattle-based small-business exchange with more than 60,000 suppliers across 117 services. He signed up with Onvia, and receives one to 10 requests for lists a day and contracts at least once a week to businesses around...
...veteran of five transitions himself (including the tricky Nixon-Ford one), Cheney also bemoaned with a lip-curl the "admittedly unusual circumstances" that had wasted three weeks of the normal 10-week turnaround time. "A transition has a direct bearing on the quality of administration that follows it," he said. "Whatever the vice president's decision, that does not change our obligation...
Instead, there are many decentralized hubs called routers that direct data from one local network on the Internet to another...
...Students have played a direct role with faculty members on committees," Munir says. "I think that we are [being listened...