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...ground began to shift last week. Multimillionaire Republican Congressman Darrell Issa announced that he might put up at least $100,000 of his own money toward the recall drive--and pledged to raise in the next week at least half the $1.2 million he thinks the campaign needs. The effort claims 100,000 signatures, and collecting the required 900,000 is a daunting job, but organizers will now have the resources to hire professionals to gather signatures in front of grocery stores and shopping malls across the state. If he succeeds, Issa intends to offer himself as a replacement...
...imploring his balky legislature to support a tax raise. "I envy his position of being able to come to Little Rock and preach tax cuts while I preach a tax increase," Huckabee told TIME. "He has a tool that I do not have, called deficit spending, and can shift--or at least not fix--the Medicaid issue, which is causing most of my heartburn." Medicaid costs in Arkansas have risen from $1.2 billion a decade ago to $2 billion, and Huckabee, like Governors everywhere else, wants Washington to start shouldering more of the burden...
...attack marks a dramatic shift for al-Qaeda, which had for the most part avoided conducting terror operations on Saudi territory. And that could signal a change in al-Qaeda's strategic priorities in response to 18 months of pressure on the organization by the U.S. and its allies, as well as the changed reality in the Middle East now that the U.S. has settled in for a long occupation of Iraq...
...always desperation that drives the shift; sometimes it's simply the quest for job satisfaction. Nick Peters, 48, of Des Moines had spent years in hospital administration when he hit a wall. He had grown up believing "the man gets up, puts on his suit and tie, goes to work from 9 to 5 at the same place for 35 years," he says. "But I realized that's a bunch of hooey." In the fall, he will begin course work to become a "real-time" reporter, the modern moniker for a court reporter. The skill is in brisk demand...
...been evolving over time. My grandparents grew up in a generation of gratitude--the Depression. They had so little. Today the shift is to entitlement. I think you can pinpoint this to the early '90s, the last recession. What happened is that companies were looking at what sold during this time period. What they realized was that things like soft drinks, fast food, sneakers, chewing gum, Barbie dolls flourished. It was the coming of age of Generation Y, born between 1979 and 1994. And the [companies] said, Hmm, here's a new opportunity...