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A common sense alternative is to protect America's national forests from commercial logging by reinvesting the logging subsidies into economically viable programs, ... Rather then spending taxpayer dollars to degrade our national heritage, we should invest in programs for ecological restoration, adequate school funding, alternative fiber research, vocational training, and community economic development. - Cynthia McKinney

A brand's overall ability to reach its sales goal primarily depends on its capacity to quickly and thoroughly react to external obstacles faced during brand development and launch. That means having an adequate budget that can help brand teams meet challenges. - Eric Bolesh

[Worries about accountability may also have played a role in the decision to open brand-new schools rather than add teachers and students to existing schools. That's because President Bush's No Child Left Behind policy imposes sanctions on every school that fails to improve its test standing each year, a requirement known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). By the state's own accountability measure, the schools in Orleans Parish have the lowest performance scores in the state; East Baton Rouge Parish is 10 places higher on the list of 65. The state department of education has already asked federal education secretary Margaret Spellings to limit AYP requirements for 20052006 to students enrolled in the same school for two years.] I am reluctant to waive, even partially, AYP or approve broad changes in state AYP definitions at this time... the linchpin of the No Child Left Behind accountability system. - Margaret Spellings

[This statement is patently absurd on its face. MALDEF seeks to equate its own controversial political agenda with] justice for Latinos. ... Without a doubt, skyrocketing litigation costs have come at the expense of programs that should be helping needy and needful Americans. - John Roberts

[The White House bullying] along with the patriotic mood after 9/11; the absence of congressional oversight; the fact that much of the information in question is classified; the campaign on the Internet, cable TV and talk radio to equate criticism with disloyalty; and maybe our concerns about our declining popularity and reputation may have combined to make the mainstream media less aggressive about challenging the case for war in Iraq and other issues than we should have been. - John Walcott

[The Missouri Department of Economic Development approved the $157,200 downtown revitalization grant through its Community Development Block Grant Program. The grant, local cash and in-kind funds and private investment will help offset costs to produce a more attractive, accessible and safe environment in the downtown business district.] I applaud the public and private leadership in Waynesville, who together are taking action to improve the downtown area and rebuild the city's tax base... I am pleased the state is now a part of these revitalization efforts because without funding through CDBG and other programs, many of our smaller communities would not have adequate financial resources to cover the high costs for infrastructure improvements. - Matt Blunt

[Pipeline repairs are] a good first step to helping us resolve the supply shortage, ... But I think we've still got several more days to go before they get (the fuel flow) up to a percentage that will allow us to fuel most of our convenience stores and get adequate gas supplies back into them. - David Bunch

[Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo] epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. ... lapdog news media. - Frank Rich

[More than a quarter of U.S. schools did not make] adequate yearly progress ... It is absolutely unconscionable for the president to demand that states pay for federally required programs without properly funding them. Since NCLB passed, we have been hearing horror stories from states desperately looking for money to meet requirements. - Howard Dean

[Long ago, in his biography of seminal jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton, my great-uncle Alan Lomax equated the city's contribution to American music with Florence's involvement in the arts of the Renaissance. But it was another city in Italy that seems closer to the mark now.] We've lost our city... I fear it's potentially like Pompeii. - Marc Morial