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While Bush supporters point to the administration's Clean Air Act of 1990 as evidence of the president's commitment to the environment, Quayle's Council on Competitiveness has done its best to gut the act and delay enforcement of its regulatory provisions. In fact, the act represents one of many environmental initiatives that Quayle's council has sought to undermine. Bush has consistently used his vice president, who chairs the council (which was created in 1990 to combat business regulations), to defend business interests in opposition to environmental proposals...
...last. This magical effort--a gorgeous piano-and-cello-driven recollection of skinny-dipping with old high school friends--captures Automatic for the people's lost youth theme with passion and energy. Stipe's performance is poetic. His voice is innocent, soulful, beautiful; his lyrics are filled with gut-wrenching imagery of times long gone. And the vocals run along independent of the musical score, imparting a wonderful feeling of nightswimming--of youthful bliss...
...last. This magical effort--a gorgeous piano-and-cello-driven recollection of skinny-dipping with old high school friends--captures Automatic for the People's lost youth theme with passion and energy. Stipe's performance is poetic. His voice is innocent, soulful, beautiful; his lyrics are filled with gut-wrenching imagery of times long gone. And the vocals run along independent of the musical score, imparting a wonderful feeling of nightswimming--of youthful bliss...
...face probably gave me away because he said, "I know it'll be a lot of work, but isn't that what I'm here for? Everyone keeps telling me to take a gut, but I want to take classes because I like them and want to learn something. I didn't think that would be considered strange here...
...progress." But Bechon would not go so far as Monnet, who hoped that transcending nationalism would "liberate Europe from its past." In making up his mind, Bechon kept mulling over memories that the politicians would have him forget. "In Europe we have a history that lives on in our gut," he said. "As a child, I remember cowering as the Germans goose-stepped by me. Never a day passed that my grandfather did not mention World War I. Today in Sarajevo it seems to be a replay...