A new bill will be brought before parliament this year mandating, for the first time, measures and targets to preserve and improve the health of the UK's soils.
He talked for a minute or two at one point about how important it was to use the campaign to build a governing mandate for the first 100 days of a Bush presidency.
Under the change, any building larger than 25,000 square feet would be subject to the requirements, bringing as many as 16,000 buildings in the five boroughs under the mandate for the first time.
In addition, the proposal would fund a massive expansion of state education and training or "workfare" programs and mandate, for the first time, that unemployed, working-age SNAP recipients enroll.
Dean inherited a party so dispirited after its defeat in 2004 that few other Democrats of note expressed the least interest in running it; the party he relinquishes this January, making way for whomever Obama chooses to succeed him, will firmly control all three power centers in Washington, brandishing a decisive governing mandate for the first time since 1992.
A new bill will be brought before parliament this year mandating, for the first time, measures and targets to preserve and improve the health of the UK's soils, amid growing concern that we are sleepwalking into a crisis of soil fertility that could destroy our ability to feed ourselves.
Obama orders "appropriate workplace accommodations" for federal employees The health care reform bill mandated for the first time that employers with more than 50 employees be responsible for providing a private place for breastfeeding moms to pump their milk at work.
You report (front page, Nov. 4) that the White House claims that the election constitutes a "mandate" for the second term.
While Nitish Kumar did everything right in his first term and managed a stronger mandate for the second, the way forward could be trickier.
In a nod to this problem, a national equal opportunity law was updated last year, mandating punishments for the first time for discriminating against women in the workplace.
