The longtime Wisconsin Senate Democratic duo of Gaylord Nelson and William Proxmire: Nelson known for his love of the environment, Proxmire for his antipathy for wasteful government spending.

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That changed when a new executive vice president, William Nelson, was appointed in 1995 (he became chief executive in 1999).

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Greenies like Senator William Nelson (Democrat-Florida), who kept similar proposals out of the recently enacted energy bill, are pushing back against Domenici, and the Wilderness Society planned a demonstration in Washington for September to protest the move.

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Greenies like Senator William Nelson (D-Fla.), who kept similar proposals out of the recently enacted energy bill, are pushing back against Domenici, and the Wilderness Society planned a demonstration in Washington for September to protest the move.

FORBES: Open the Spigots

The Senate boss, Finance Committee Chairman Nelson Aldrich, together with President William Howard Taft concocted a compromise to stop the income tax bill that the House had passed.

WSJ: Jay Starkman: Many Unhappy Returns��Millions of Them

Amid the overkill, there are scenes of a sudden and startling beauty, and the impotent ranks of teachers are played by a cast of surprising (if underused) power, including Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, Blythe Danner, William Petersen, Lucy Liu, a tweedy Tim Blake Nelson, and, best of all, James Caan.

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