California time and Prophet hopped on the blower to find out whether critical parts made in northern Honshu would be available in sufficient quantities in the coming weeks and months.
This so-called qui tam case allows the resources of the federal government to intervene on the side of a whistle-blower.
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Defense attorneys have been able to cast a slim shadow of doubt on even the seemingly impervious whistle-blower Sherron Watkins , who memorably submitted a memo stating that "Enron will collapse in a wave of accounting scandals, " and former Treasurer Benjamin Glisan , who as it turns out received favorable treatment while in prison.
The Justice Department declined Tuesday to comment on potential civil action against Armstrong, saying the whistle-blower suit is under court seal.
The National Union of Teachers' leader, Christine Blower, said the government's position on exam reform was "now surely untenable".
I've put up with the neighbor who hired a couple of guys to remove paint from his house with an electric scraper and then disappeared for the weekend, the neighbor who uses a leaf blower at 10 at night, the neighbor who whacks weeds on Father's Day, the most immoral act known to man.
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The district has launched a pilot program to offer landscape workers a good deal on 1500 of the industry's cleanest and quietest leaf blower, if they trade-in their old blowers.
Bang on cue, Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, is quoted denouncing the idea, saying that "children and young people differ from year to year, making it impossible to measure progress in simplistic terms" (translation: don't blame teachers for bad results, blame the children), and calling performance-related pay "divisive" (well yes, that's the point).
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