Employers had mounted a vigorous counterattack, claiming approval of the initiative would undermine Switzerland's competitiveness, slash tax revenues and breach a taboo on giving the state a role in relations between employers and employees.
However, the uncertainty posed in this scenario, combined with mounting criticism of the government and Prime Minister Kan's low approval rating prior to the disaster (at 20%), seems likely to spur a change in government.
WASHINGTON — A coalition of top Senate Democrats laid out the contours of a proposed overhaul of immigration laws on Thursday — and appealed to Republicans to join them in pursuing it — even as doubts mounted about the prospects of winning approval of legislation this year.
But faced with the mounting strain of the state's current energy crisis, the commission has yet to deny approval for a new plant since Gov. Gray Davis enacted emergency power orders.
The suit, filed on behalf of Bank of America shareholders, asserts that the bank's executives misled them by not disclosing Merrill's mounting mortgage losses in proxy documents recommending approval of the deal.
FACT: Then in an outrageous act, SAG tried to sabotage another guild's contract when they mounted an all out campaign to scuttle the member's approval of the AMPTP-AFTRA agreement.
Climate activists, however, organized mightily to make the approval of the pipeline a defining national issue, while scientific evidence mounted against burning more fossil fuels.
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats reached an agreement with Republican moderates on Friday to pare a huge economic recovery measure, clearing the way for approval of a package that President Obama said was urgently needed in light of mounting job losses.
The court required the government to seek the approval of Parliament's budget committee before making money available for future bailouts of European countries struggling under mounting debt.
After winning swift approval of the stimulus, the administration struggled to push other initiatives through a balky Congress as concern heightened about mounting deficits.
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