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...fast and in such a pragmatic direction that he didn't want to get caught out. His campaign had been hearing from key environmental groups, says an Edwards adviser, "and the consensus was that they don't want to trash this bill. They want to strengthen it, not kill...
...clarified the endorsement, pledging support for local administrators like Spitzer who must “deal with the crisis caused by this administration’s failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform.”She was lambasted. He was shellacked. This past Wednesday, the Governor was forced to kill the brilliant bill. According to 70 percent of New Yorkers, the proposal went too far. Lou Dobbs ranted about granting privileges where none are due. The Wall Street Journal, one of the loudest advocates for open borders, unfairly dubbed the proposal a recipe for voter fraud. New York Democrats...
...Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) or even Cyber Monday (the following Monday). For the past four years, it's been Thanksgiving Day itself - I need a catchy phrase, like Brown Thursday or perhaps Cyburkey Day - when we rush to our computers to surf the retail sites, perhaps to kill time while the bird is roasting or to start our holiday buying research. Hitwise data reveals that a good portion of Internet traffic on Thanksgiving is research related - many people are searching for information on the biggest offline shopping day of the year, Black Friday...
...their workers. In the 1990s, Harvard's Porter started using the word "cluster" to get at the usefulness of companies in close proximity sharing infrastructure, ideas and employees - like high performance cars in Germany. Some predicted that a globalized company's ability to cherry pick regions would kill the notion of clusters, but countries are trying to establish industrial niches for themselves more than ever...
...book is an effort to reach out to people who are normally wary of reading about ecological problems, Weisman said. “The idea was to get around the primordial fear that we all have when we hear about the environment and think, is this going to kill us,” Weisman said. “In my book, we get beyond this concern because we’re all dead by page one.” Once it gets beyond the end of mankind, the book examines how the earth would react without the daily pressure...