"The D.E.P. began issuing exceptions and began backsliding as soon as it was issued," said one source.
A key issue involves exceptions: What categories of spending or taxing would be exempted from the trigger, and how large a majority would be required to override the trigger?
In his hands, this should make the New Left Review, whatever your politics, worth reading; the first issue, with exceptions, certainly is.But Mr Anderson does not think the masses will turn to the left until a slump of 1930s proportions: he is thus not far from the Leninist posture of "the worse, the better".
Apart from Mr. Akin's fate – on Tuesday, he said he would not withdraw – the issue of exceptions in anti-abortion laws now seems likely to be an undercurrent of the presidential race At Mr. Ryan's rally here, near Pittsburgh, the crowd seemed well aware of the swirling controversy.
"They don't want to issue the exception to China now, and then face pressure to revoke it in the next 180-day period," said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert on Iranian sanctions.
But many of the states challenging the law have taken a posture more like that of Idaho, where Gov. C. L. Otter, a Republican, made a show this spring of ordering his agencies not to pursue Affordable Care Act grants and then quickly issued 10 exceptions to that rule.
It's not as though American public life is usually deliberative, open, and engaged, with religion and science issues raising exceptions.
Responding by e-mail to a set of written questions, Shuya Nakatsuka, a first secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Washington who is in charge of fisheries issues, took exception with some of the main arguments of "The Cove".
"Any Israeli government that accepts the two-state solution, negotiates with us on all core issues without exception and agrees to stop settlement activity will be a partner," the Associated Press quoted Saeb Erakat, a Palestinian negotiator, as saying.
"Any Israeli government that accepts the two-state solution, negotiates with us on all core issues without exception, and agrees to stop settlement activity... will be a partner," he said.
