But without taxpayer assistance, say analysts, AIG would have declared bankruptcy, requiring state regulators to take over existing insurance policies.
Mr. Bush did not mention Mr. Arafat by name in his speech, but he declared, "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership".
A few months later, acting on complaints from agents, the equal opportunity agency declared that requiring an employee to sign away rights to keep a job amounted to "unlawful retaliation".
Federal prosecutors announced this week that they would investigate Mr. Cardoso's 1998 re-election campaign, citing documents indicating that fund-raisers for the president failed to declare, as required by law, at least $8.4 million in donations.
The Olympic trip got off to a bad start when the Army's scheduled ship,, was declared unseaworthy, requiring a last-minute substitution.
Petitions to declare late require additional documentation and are less likely to be approved.
A colleague of Kaufman's at the Hudson Institute, Michael Horowitz, was more outspoken, declaring that "requiring some form of identification of voters seems to me not merely reasonable but long overdue".
That means the state's bar for declaring victory requires more rain.
The ACLU has asked the court to declare that requiring Kansas state contractors to affirm they do not participate in the Israel BDS movement violates the First and 14th Amendments.
First of all, the 14th Party Congress was declared invalid, as required by the Moscow Protocol; hard-liners were thus able to occupy positions of power.
