Lord Bingham, and one of the Law Lords in the first panel who sided with General Pinochet, considered the retrospectivity argument briefly, and then rejected it because the plain language of Britain's 1989 Extradition Act seems explicitly to rule it out.

ECONOMIST: Not much to celebrate

When this money, the federal dollars from the Reinvestment and Recovery Act, run out, will it then be up to the states to come up with the revenue to keep these jobs in operation?

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It is a solitary act, which is then taken out into the world.

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