One can't help but be a little curious as to why the issue wasn't raised at that time rather than at this particular time and a Democrat colleague of hers on the commission has strongly endorsed both her nomination for the chairmanship and her performance as a commissioner.

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Those queries are hard to answer but pondering them is far more useful than asking whether taxes will rise or fall relative to a baseline, or whether it will take more or less income out of the pockets of those in a particular income group than it did at some time in the past.

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One would think that Speaker Boehner and his staff would have had more important things to do on this particular Sunday morning than wasting time engaging in a useless school yard fight.

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He also said he spends less time on design and marketing than Mr. Jobs, who had a particular passion and reputation for micromanaging those functions.

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In particular, the performance of some cultural expressions in a different space or time than that which corresponds to the tradition can lose all its significance for the local communities concerned.

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"In my early years, the backing of the board, and Sir Bobby Charlton in particular, gave me the confidence and time to build a football club, rather than just a football team, " Ferguson said.

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