Each bank had a manager, they said, who kept in touch with storefront shops by way of runners who, in turn, would shuttle back and forth, carrying policy slips with bettors' numbers.
It's a democracy, and no matter how good the election results may have been, it's still a fractured democracy, and policy slips can push back the economy quite far," Mr. Aziz said.
Still, says Richard Morse of SuperCritical Capital, a consultancy, it is hard to see coal's share of the mix dropping below one-quarter by 2030.Environmentalists used to fret that Barack Obama had let climate policy slip behind other priorities, such as health care.
In the most recent evidence of that, a Washington Post/ABC News poll published today found a nine-point jump in the last three weeks, to 46percentt, in the number of Americans who disapprove of Mr. Bush's Iraq policy, while the number who expressed support for the policy slipped to 52percentt from 56percentt.
WASHINGTON -- Grover Norquist's grip on the Republican Party's tax policy slipped dramatically on Tuesday, a development that is likely to have significant repercussions on the debate over spending, revenue and the federal deficit.
This was a policy slipped through with an oxymoronic title that suggested space was being protected for the public, rather than from it, in a move presumably inspired by the school of political thought which saw the bedroom tax rebranded as the "spare room subsidy".
Mr McCain added to the misery this week by making another in a long list of foreign-policy slips of the tongue by referring to the "Iraq-Pakistan border".
Lee M. Miringoff, the director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, whose polls have shown support for the president's policies slipping, said it appeared that Mr. Pataki was following a political strategy aimed at pleasing the White House, rather than playing to his constituents.
Which means that he's ultra-sensitive to "the gay agenda" or to President Obama's "socialist" policies, slipping superfluous mentions of both into reviews of the most unlikely films, from V for Vendetta ("blatant support for the gay agenda") to Fantastic Mr Fox ("makes as much sense as Obama's foreign policy").
And anyway, American liberalism, like its opposite number, American conservatism, is much bigger than any individual policy or slip-up, however dire.
Domestic support for the President's policy is slipping.
