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...rolled out bite-sized policy chunks on its major themes of education, child care, industrial relations, federalism and business regulation. The impasse between the Commonwealth and states is neatly captured by Rudd as a "blame game." Terms like "infrastructure" and "skills" are now in common use as shorthand for government failure. Just enough policy detail is being released to maintain momentum. But for now, at least, Labor's new pragmatism and micro policy steps limit the government's ability to slap it down...
...recent years, pastors' wives have found a place to vent. PWs (in electronic shorthand) from Fargo to Fiji reach out to and support one another in lively fellowship via Web-based networks, blogs and online discussion forums. On websites like PastorsWives.org SarahsTent.com and GPWN.tv, they share their thoughts on topics of unique interest, from the banal (recipe ideas for a mother-daughter prayer brunch) to the intimate (how to confront a pastor husband who is addicted to porn). When a Seattle pastor blogged that Ted Haggard's wife was to blame for his infidelity, PW chat boards...
...Russians, he is unrepentant: "It was a shock," says Ungr, who had been six times to the "Soyuz" (Russian shorthand for the Soviet Union), of what is now referred to as the 1968 Soviet occupation. "We were hugging them just moments ago and now we should fight? Those boys who came here, it was not their fault...
...Even worse, last year about 3,000 suspects, mostly drug offenders, were released from jail or bond obligations under what's come to be known as "701," shorthand for the Louisiana statute that prevents suspects from being held more than 60 days without formal charges being brought against them. And in January alone, the number of 701 releases soared to 580. Prosecutors say they aren't getting police reports in time to bring charges, or that the reports are incomplete and unable to withstand the rigors of a trial. For their part, police counter that the D.A.'s office...
...Whatever they were they were tall, but not too tall - space limitations, you see; they were dark...; they were handsome - well, symbolically handsome. The world of comics was a form of visual shorthand, so that the average hero need not have been handsome in fact, so long as his face was held to the required arrangement of lines that readers had been taught to be the accepted sign of handsome: sharp, slanting eyebrows, thick at the ends, thinning out toward the nose, of which in three-quarter view there was hardly any - just a small V placed slightly above...