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Asked whether the penalty on the Predators' Shea Weber at the end of Game 1 of the Nashville-Detroit series, in which Weber rammed Henrik Zetterberg's head into the end boards as time expired, would be the kind of penalty that might carry over, Holland said yes.

An author who survived until the copyright expired would be granted an additional 14-year term, and when that ran out, the works would enter the public domain.

The Bush White House and Republican Congresses structured the tax cuts so that letting them expire would be politically difficult.

"Allowing the Ex-Im Bank to expire would be a crippling blow to our export economy," Ms. Cantwell said Wednesday.

With the economy weak, letting all the tax cuts expire would be a big hit to consumer spending and, by extension, job growth.

That east Midtown rezoning plan I mentioned, which the Bloomberg administration is trying to ram through the City Council before the mayor's term expires, would be a bonanza for commercial developers who want to erect giant office towers on Park Avenue and around Grand Central Station.

Almost all Republicans saw that as a tax increase, and a big one, but Mr. Norquist — seeing that passage was inevitable — again declared that the deal did not violate his group's no-new-taxes pledge since letting all the tax cuts expire would be worse.

He said he would come for Mr. Hame the next morning, and warned him that if he did not agree to the mission, his passport, which was about to expire, would be given to another recruit who would go to Europe in his place.

More, letting the Bush tax cuts expire would be a modest act of patriotism by all of us that have not served in uniform.

This year, the Democrats gave in to the framing that letting the cuts expire would be a tax increase.

In short, letting the tax cuts expire would be better for the middle class (and even more so for the poor the lowest quintile would gain only $45 from extension), and for the country, than extending them for everyone.