S.1965 - Startup Act of 2011

A bill to jump-start economic recovery through the formation and growth of new businesses, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)

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  • Short: Startup Act of 2011 as introduced.
  • Official: A bill to jump-start economic recovery through the formation and growth of new businesses, and for other purposes. as introduced.

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05/29/12
Sidney Barthwell, Former Classmate, Predicts Trouble For Romney When Debating Obama

Barthwell, 64, was the only black member of Romney's 1965 class at Cranbrook Schools and later attended Harvard Law School with Obama. He identifies himself as being politically independent, has donated money to both campaigns and has ...

Source: Huffington Post
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05/28/12
Amazon in danger as Brazil moves forward with bill, critics say

The update to the country's 1965 Forestry Code would reduce both the amount of vegetation landowners must preserve and the future penalties paid for those who currently flout environmental laws. After valuable wood is sold, much of the land in ...

Source: Los Angeles Times
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05/28/12
Obituary: Henry Denker / Prolific playwright, novelist known for radio drama

Writer Fulton Oursler borrowed the title of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" for a 1949 book about the life of Jesus, which became the basis for director George Stevens's 1965 film of the same name. Mr. Denker's 1956 court-martial drama (written with Ralph .

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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05/23/12
Henry Denker, Prolific Playwright and Novelist, Dies at 99

Writer Fulton Oursler borrowed the title of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" for a 1949 book about the life of Jesus, which became the basis for director George Stevens's 1965 film of the same name. In 1982, Denker told The Washington Post that he gave up ..

Source: nola.com
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05/23/12
Ryan Truesdell: Unearthing the Cool

Kate McGarry sings it now, convincingly in character. “Look to the Rainbow” is an arrangement never used for the title track of Astrud Gilberto’s 1965 recording. Gilberto sang it with just a rhythm section and flute. Now the full 12-piece ...

Source: JazzTimes Magazine
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05/21/12
"Credenda"/My Short Career as a High School Revolutionary

We also read and wrote about Ebony Magazine's 1965 still-resonant piece, the marvelous "The White Problem in America". It turned on its head -- and rightly, of course -- the then usual phrase. Overall, the training was useful and reified for me ...

Source: Salon
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05/21/12
Gavin Newsom, Cory Booker and the Struggle for Urban America

It tries to fit Booker into Lindsay’s 1965 Time magazine image despite Booker being African-American rather than upper-crust WASP, Newark not being New York City, and the federal government’s retrenchment from investment in inner-city America.

Source: Beyond Chron
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05/18/12
Table Talk: When A Presidential Candidate Is Accused Of Bullying

and what other boys might go along with at a school like [Romney's], 1965 was different [from 2012]; but memory and empathy are not qualities that have only been invented since then." On The New York Times’s Motherlode blog, KJ Dell’Antonia ...

Source: Huffington Post
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05/18/12
Blair Lee: Make me wanna holler

2. Assassination attempt The Washington Post reached a new low in corrupt journalism last week with its front-page, 5,000-word expose of Mitt Romney’s 1965 high school hijinks. Yes, Post reporters had to travel back 47 years to find an ...

Source: Maryland Community Newspapers Online
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05/17/12
Brian Chase of Bisnar | Chase Personal Injury Attorneys Named 2012 Southern California Super Lawyer

He is the author of “Still Unsafe at Any Speed”, the most comprehensive literary work on auto defects since Ralph Nader’s 1965 book of the same subject, “Unsafe at Any Speed”, and is a frequent lecturer for various trade organizations where he ..

Source: YAHOO!
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05/16/12
Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp supervised by Scout Master Randy Ward ...

Source: Village Voice (blog)
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05/13/12
Afghan Whigs reunite

The Afghan Whigs subsequently released two CDs for national label Elektra, while Sub Pop issued the vinyl versions, and the final one for Columbia, 1998’s 1965. Since then, Curley has run Cincinnati’s Ultrasuede Studio, where currently ...

Source: Cincinnati.com
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05/12/12
Liberty's Wiesen Attempts History

Wiesen never pitched in the game. The five major league players to play every position in one game are: Cesar Tovar (Twins 1968), Bert Campenaris (Athletic's 1965), Jose Oquendo (Cardinals 1988), Scott Shelden (Rangers 2000), and Shane Halter (Tigers 2000)

Source: WYTV.com
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05/12/12
Willard Romney's Gay Bashing Problem

You heard right. It's 1965 and preppie Willard Romney had no concern and no clue that a swishy looking kid he happened to attack with scissors might be gay? This one makes Bill Clinton's "didn't inhale" dodge seem almost credible. I was there ...

Source: Cape Cod Today
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05/10/12
Former Romney Classmate Describes ‘Bullying Supreme’ – A ‘Pack of Dogs’ Who Targeted ‘Different’ Boy

A high school classmate of presidential candidate Mitt Romney told ABC News today that he considers a particular prank the two pulled at Michigan’s Cranbrook School to be “assault and battery” and that he witnessed Romney hold the scissors ...

Source: ABC News
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05/10/12
Former Romney Classmate Describes 'Bullying Supreme' - A 'Pack of Dogs' Who Targeted 'Different' Boy

Mitt Romney's 1965 high school yearbook photo from the Cranbrook School. Image Credit: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library A high school classmate of presidential candidate Mitt Romney told ABC News today that he considers a particular prank pulled at Michigan's

Source: YAHOO!
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05/10/12
Mitt Romney forcibly cut the hair of a flamboyant fellow prep student: report

They say that at the end of the school’s 1965 spring break, Romney spotted Lauber walking around campus with beached-blond hair that draped over one eye, according to the paper. “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!”

Source: New York Daily News
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05/08/12
Dodgers, fans welcome a new era

At the end of one of those silly something-cam gags that they show on the video board in left field, which was accompanied by The Lovin' Spoonful's 1965 hit Do You Believe in Magic, the camera panned to Johnson himself, seated in the front row ...

Source: ESPN
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05/05/12
At the Kirkland Museum, a risk on behalf of fine Colorado art

The definition is broad enough to run from Henry Elkins' traditional take on "The Rocky Mountains" from 1875 to Charles Stewart Stobie's 1888 impressionist "Indians Along the Platte River" to William Sanderson's 1965 biblical-based "Flight Into Egypt."

Source: Denver Post
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05/04/12
At the Kirkland Museum, a risk on behalf of fine Colorado art

The definition is broad enough to run from Henry Elkins' traditional take on "The Rocky Mountains" from 1875 to Charles Stewart Stobie's 1888 impressionist "Indians Along the Platte River" to William Sanderson's 1965 biblical-based "Flight Into Egypt."

Source: Denver Post
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05/03/12
Readers recommend: songs about parks – results

Chicago soulster Billy Stewart's 1965 hit Sitting in the Park set the bar high for such songs. "Hope over experience, keeps him sitting in the park waiting for her," says LittleRiver. "Pretty, pretty song." Ticking a few of the same boxes is Gentlemen of .

Source: The Guardian
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04/25/12
Brazil Lower House Passes Forest Bill After Year of Negotiations

The legislation was approved in a 274-184 vote and updates the nation’s 1965 forestry code, according to a final count in the Congress’ lower house. The bill may still have some changes after lawmakers proposals of amendments before heading ...

Source: Bloomberg
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04/25/12
Deadlock Over Syria

Patrick Seale’s 1965 classic, The Struggle for Syria, describes the battle for control of that country after the second world war (1). It was played out against the background of the cold war, but also within the context of the struggle for ...

Source: Counter Punch
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04/23/12
Where IT is going: Cloud, mobile, and data

Cloud computing in this sense embodies all the big changes in back-end computation. Many of these relate to Moore's Law, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's 1965 observation that the number of transistors it's economically possible to build into an ...

Source: CNET News
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04/22/12
For Obama Crowd, Judicial Activism Suddenly Isn't Cool Anymore

Likewise, Justice Hugo Black refused to join the Court’s 1965 ruling that the Constitution protects personal privacy, because it relied on “cases from which this Court recoiled after the 1930s, and which had been, I thought, totally discredited.” 

Source: Forbes
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04/22/12
'60s TV star returns to Pittsburgh

“She bridged the gap for female characters between the 1950s and ‘70s,” said Barbara Feldon, the Bethel Park-bred actress who played Agent 99 during the show’s 1965 to 1970 run. Five years before Mary Tyler Moore tossed her tam into the Minneapolis

Source: Beaver County Times
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04/12/12
Clackamas Rep to lead off summer season with well-matched 'Odd Couple'

Apr 11, 2012 (The Oregonian - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Neil Simon's 1965 play "The Odd Couple" is a touchstone of American comedy. It's also one of those entertainment properties that's become so familiar (through a ...

Source: TMCnet
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04/11/12
Congress members call for White House action against discrimination

In an April 3 letter to the White House, they urged Obama to expand on President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 order that prohibited contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. “The opportunity to ...

Source: Washington Post
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04/11/12
Clackamas Rep to lead off summer season with well-matched 'Odd Couple'

Neil Simon’s 1965 play “The Odd Couple” is a touchstone of American comedy. It’s also one of those entertainment properties that’s become so familiar (through a movie, a TV series and innumerable stage productions) that you might ...

Source: Oregonian
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04/10/12
A visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

All are celebrated in full glory. There's everything from Jimi Hendrix's hand-scribbled "Purple Haze" lyrics to Janis Joplin's 1965 psychedelic-painted Porsche. If your memory is starting to dim, that's because rock turns 60 this year in its hometown.

Source: Oregonian
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