As the primary nears, the Romney campaign has increased the pace of TV advertising in Michigan, including attacks on Mr Santorum - whom they paint as an unreliable guardian of the US economy and a veteran of a broken Washington system.
Costco has argued that Washington's system flouts the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Unlike Mr McCain, whom this newspaper supported during the primaries, Mr Bush will not shake up Washington's lamentable system of money politics.
We're up against the belief that it's all right for lobbyists to dominate our government, that they are just part of the system in Washington.
Here's the truth: the system in Washington is broken.
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His latest speech on the debt ceiling crisis and his speeches on the fiscal cliff have shown him to be as much a part of the broken system in Washington as anyone else.
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Trash cans and recycling bins are being removed from certain areas of Washington's Metro subway system as a safety precaution.
"If you're within one to two miles of the festivities, just walk, " said Lisa Forestein, a spokesperson for Washington's Metro subway system.
The Bush administration explained Thursday how it would like to overhaul Washington's vast regulatory system to prevent another crisis in the nation's credit markets.
Washington has relied on its system to shut down the Rangers.
But there is a limit to how much Washington can dictate in a system where so much power lies with the states and those elected judges.
But even if Washington could devise a perfect system, a larger task would remain: identifying kids so close to the edge that a mere film could push them over.
And now, according to an article that appeared in the Washington Post today, the system has become a web so unwieldy it's hard to see if it is actually making us safer.
Growing militancy by technology companies, including those who are themselves beneficiaries of the patent system, may lead Washington to act.
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Corporations have moved to Washington to be part of the system.
Voters have also adopted an open-primary system, imported from Washington state.
The "scale is so much bolder than things we've seen, " said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington nonprofit group.
It is now up to the regulators and policy makers in Washington to correct the broken mortgage system - before the damage to home owners, banks and the US economy becomes too great.
At the moment, Costco cannot buy directly from out-of-state vineyards, but must go through Washington's three-tier distribution system, complete with mandatory mark-ups.
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The computers are part of a system that links computers in Washington holding "unclassified but sensitive" information with 250 U.S. embassies and consulates.
But one could imagine switching to a system like the one in Washington DC, where fares are regulated, but anyone who meets minimum service criteria can go into the taxi business.
Then, the Obama Administration decided to scrap those years of work and plow under those mountains of money for a bright new idea: develop a single national system, run out of Washington.
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An education system that devolves power away from Washington, teaches basic skills, and trains kids to be competitive in the marketplace is what is needed.
In a first-person account in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, Matt Bowen, a former Washington Redskins defensive back, described a similar system at that team.
Washington is hardly unique in wanting a liberal world system of open trade, freedom of the seas, enforceable rules of contract and protection for foreign investment.
Supporters of the U.S. private-pay system fear a shift in power to Washington will cut down on the innovation and choice that comes with the free market.
Instead, we should close the existing loopholes in the tax system that give special deals to connected Washington insiders and move towards a flatter, fairer tax code that treats all Americans equally.
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Frank Cilluffo, associate vice president of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University, said that in order for the system to be effective, specific and concrete actions need to be given.
Dr Welch and his colleagues are planning to install a system of microphones stretching from the coast of Washington state to south-eastern Alaska.
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