It is this law — the one Mr. Perry, at least until recently, excoriated — that "is now clearly the bedrock issue" for the ethanol industry, said Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association.
At issue immediately is whether that can be achieved through a shift in tactics and tone, or will instead require a deeper rethinking of the party's longtime positions on bedrock issues like guns and immigration.
"There are occasionally lines that have to be drawn, not only in the sand but also in the bedrock on issues of curatorial integrity," said Harold Holzer, vice president for communications at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"For us, it's a bedrock issue.
Both sit on the Senate Health Education Pensions & Labor Committee, which held DeVos's nomination hearing, at which she demonstrated minimal understanding of bedrock education issues and offered only weak support for public schools.
"On certain bedrock contemporary issues... the digital era has driven a wedge between the interests of libraries and rights holders," former Copyright Office employee Mary Rasenberger, now executive director of the Authors Guild, said at a congressional hearing.
Beyond these specifics lie bedrock constitutional issues posed by the Bush administration's eavesdropping on citizens and eroding habeas corpus standards in its treatment of interned terrorist suspects.
"The appeal will be a crucial test of where the Bush administration is on whole issue of cooperative federalism, the bedrock philosophy under many environmental statutes," he said.
But the issue of connecting the memorial to bedrock is potent and emotional.
Based on drill core logging, the bedrock of Olkiluoto consists mainly of gneiss (9% of the bedrock volume), migmatitic gneiss (64% of the bedrock volume), TGG (tonalite-granodiorite-granite) gneiss (8%), and pegmatitic granite (19%) [ 19].
