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...January 1997, Bush was in a meeting with Ralph Marquez, his appointee to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the state's environmental agency. Near the end of the meeting, one of Bush's staff members made a reference to something called "grandfathered plants." "What are those?" Bush asked. Marquez explained that in 1971, when the state's Clean Air Act was passed, the bill had exempted all existing industrial plants from the new antipollution regulations. (Texas is funny that way.) Lawmakers assumed that many of these aging plants would soon shut down, but that didn't happen. They just...
...Bauer forged some sort of alliance - based primarily on their opposition to Bush's campaign." TIME political correspondent John Dickerson, also on the road in South Carolina, sees Bauer's choice as a not-so-subtle poke at rival Christian conservatives. "There's a deep-seated tension between the Ralph Reed?Pat Robertson wing of the Christian right and the Gary Bauer wing," says Dickerson. "Bauer sees Reed and Robertson as promoting a caricature of social conservatism, and he wants to break from that." Bauer threw his weight behind McCain, Dickerson adds, in response to Reed and Robertson's attempt...
...nasty business, even in a profligate economy. Struggling Levi Strauss just had its debt downgraded, and the stock price of can't-miss Tommy Hilfiger took a drubbing over slowing sales and murmurs that the Hilfiger label was losing its cool. Last year it was lifestyle king Polo Ralph Lauren's turn to get hammered by the market...
...Ralph Schoenstein, the author of "You Can't Be Serious--Writing and Living American History" wrote a clever piece for The Boston Globe highlighting some of the better quotes from the newly-released tape recordings of former president Richard M. Nixon during Watergate and reminding us how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Quoting one of Nixon's exchanges with White House counsel John Dean, Schoenstein points out the Clintonian ring to the president's speech. "They'll hang us," Dean says. "It depends what you mean by hang," Nixon replies...
...Ralph S. Boyd, Averell's attorney, said that the decision to dismiss the case was jointly reached by Delta, the Suffolk County Distract Attorney's office and the Averell family...