Democratic lawmakers do not disagree, but they complained that the Republican wake-up call amounts to posturing.
The Sudan Tribune called the deal a "breakthrough" for opposition forces, but Hassabo Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, Sudan's second vice president, said the call amounts to "treason to the homeland".
For the tobacco industry, Mr. Reed's call amounted to the final break in what had been a worsening relationship with the White House.
Snowe seemed taken aback by Card's intransigence, and the call amounted to "a net step backward" for the White House, said a source outside Snowe's office.
Civil rights attorney Randolph McLaughlin went so far as to say the call amounts to a violation of the New York City Human Rights Law, which makes it unlawful "for an employer … because of the actual written or perceived … race of any person, to discriminate".
The series of blown calls amount to the shakiest campaign performance yet by a profession seemingly addicted to snap judgments and crystal-ball pronouncements.
In the United States, these transfer payments, as they are called, amount to some 10 percent of total consumer income; in a number of European nations, they come to considerably more.
These calls amount not so much to calls for resolutions of the controversy, as to ways of managing the controversy.
"Cold-dispensed beverages", as the category is called, amount to only about 2% of a store's sales, but on average, they return a 48% gross profit, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores.
These calls amount to a rejection of the Israeli and U.S. standing policy of defining themselves as leaders of democracy while defying international law at every turn.
