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...Like Obama, Vilsack promotes support for biofuels such as ethanol as critical to reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil and combating climate change, through others criticize such subsidies as sops to states like Vilsack's Iowa, where ethanol is a key source of revenue.At the announcement last week, Vilsack said he would also prioritize rural growth, a particularly salient issue in the current economic climate...
...changing attitudes reflect broader changes in the cultural, political and social climate, says Hirschorn. But another factor is a key change in state sentencing laws, which now allow Texas juries to levy a life-without-parole sentence, dubbed LWOP. The LWOP sentencing provision, though vociferously opposed by the Texas prosecution bar, was passed by a conservative legislature and signed by a conservative governor...
Reich's sentiment is shared by many Democrats who believe that the key to a strong economy is a strong middle class, and the key to a strong middle class is union bargaining. They point to heroes of the movement like Walter Reuther, the famed head of the United Auto Workers, who once famously noted that his workers were also Chrysler's best customers. "What studies show is that every time there's been a strong labor movement, there's been a strong middle class," says Janice Fine, a professor at Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations...
...many minutes in the second half due to foul trouble—he ended up fouling out with four minutes left in the game—but the Crimson shot well enough without him. The team shot 78-percent from downtown in the second half, a key factor behind the surge that almost saw a Harvard victory. The Crimson’s foul trouble led to more than just Boehm sitting out much of the second half. The Owls were granted six free throws in the last 30 seconds of the contest, and by connecting on five of them they...
...last few years, while the economy was projected to grow at 8% to 9%, top names in hospitality like Four Seasons and Aman were making forays into India to fill the huge supply gap in the top-end executive and leisure travel segments. Five-star room rates in key cities had grown by 40% year-on-year in 2007, and a report by Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, the hotel investment and advisory service provider, had predicted India would need to add 150,000 new rooms in the next four years to keep up with demand. Now, much like other formerly...