The biggest difference between the old days with Bill and the current situation is most easily described by this scenario: Bill: Two smart people are tasked with solving a hard problem in an innovative and interesting way.
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Economic thinking, in fact, seems to be behind Bill Gates' current emphasis on vaccine research.
Perhaps the most telling thing about the current bill is what investment firms are telling their clients.
In the USA, President Barack Obama abandoned last year plans for a federal climate bill during his current term.
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Under the current bill, most of the tax cuts will expire in 2010.
John McCain said Monday that he would not be able to vote for the Senate bill in its current form.
Where we crave sweeping transformation, however, all the current bill offers is those pilot programs, a battery of small-scale experiments.
Mr. McCain's spokesman declined to discuss Senate talks on the current bill.
While Labour supports the idea of fixed term Parliaments, it claims the bill in its current form "does not stand up to scrutiny".
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges had been preparing to release a statement saying it could not support the health bill in its current form.
Bush said he opposes the current bill because it would cause many families to drop private insurance and instead choose to cover their children under SCHIP.
Mr. Reid, noting that the House hadn't passed any bill during the current Congress, said House members were the ones with their behinds on the sidelines.
During the passage of the current bill, the Tory opposition inserted a clause setting up an appointments commission for life peers and stipulating how it should operate.
Let me give you an example: Bill Phillips, current CEO and Founder of Transformation, has earned a sizable amount of money over the years as an entrepreneur.
Mr. Thompson also expressed his support for an inspector general for the police department, but said he didn't support the current bill making its way through City Council.
Members of the Senate return to Washington on Monday to a week of debate that will include consideration of a supplemental spending bill for the current fiscal year.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said it was his party's position to extend civil partnerships to everybody, irrespective of their sexuality but the current bill could not be derailed.
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What was left was a bill that exacerbates current inequalities in the system, as it is designed explicitly to limit student access to online learning programs based on geography.
Yesterday, in a closed door meeting, the House Democratic caucus voted nearly unanimously not to bring the bill in its current form to the House floor.
According to news reports, Democrats and Republicans are unlikely to reach any sort of budget agreement before April 8, when a short-term spending bill for the current fiscal year expires.
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If the Democrats do show up to vote and several Republicans end up defecting and voting against the bill in its current form, I doubt Governor Scott Walker could survive the fallout.
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While the funding in the current bill is less than the Obama administration asked for, Vilsack vows that his department will do everything it can to help schools do the best with what money they are given.
But the Liberal Democrats, who have put forward their own proposal for ownership to be shared between the private sector, Royal Mail employees and the government, say they will not back the bill in its current form.
The current bill forestalls this until 2015.
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Corker, a member of the Banking Committee who had been negotiating with Dodd on behalf of the Republicans, said in a statement Thursday, The current bill would remove swap desks from commercial banks, lowering the amount of capital available for actual lending.
"We remain opposed to the current bill, and we continue to meet several times a day to decide how we're going to proceed and what amendments we will be offering as Blue Dogs on the committees, " said Rep. Mike Ross, D-Arkansas.
This morning's testimony had all the drama of Casualty - for those of you out there in the real world, I'll try and capture some of it for you - and why the Bill in its current form could be in real trouble.
He argues that the data requiring opt-in measures defined by the bill in its current form could include not just names and addresses but also IP addresses and "cookie" files that sites download to a user's browser to note his or her path on the Web.
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