Today there is still support for electing the president by a national popular vote, eliminating the process of allocating electors among the states by rules that violate the principle of one person, one vote.
Fotolia is today releasing a new add-in ribbon for Microsoft Word and PowerPoint 2007 that gives users instant access to the company's vast library of images and vectors from within the popular applications, eliminating the need to leave them.
These popular synthesizers eliminate much of the drudgery of tape splicing, but at a price.
PAGE A4 MORE EGYPT PROTESTS LOOM The presidential candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood and two popular rivals eliminated in the runoff called for further street protests until Egypt's current military rulers enforce legislation disqualifying the other remaining candidate, former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister.
CAIRO — The presidential candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood and two popular rivals eliminated before the runoff called on Monday for further street protests until Egypt's current military rulers enforce legislation disqualifying the other remaining candidate, former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik.
Similarly, I imagine there is a conservative version of myself refusing to take offense at the recommendation to increase tax revenue by eliminating popular tax breaks and loopholes.
Members of the new House majority acknowledged that cutting spending by $61 billion through Sept. 30 would touch virtually every corner of the government, reducing popular services and eliminating federal jobs.
The plan calls for deep cuts in domestic and military spending, a gradual 15-cents-a-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax, limiting or eliminating popular tax breaks in return for lower rates, and benefit cuts and an increased retirement age for Social Security.
After months of private discussions, the tentative agreement among the three Republican and three Democratic senators would cut military and domestic programs and overhaul the tax code, eliminating popular tax breaks but using the new revenues to lower income-tax rates and reduce annual deficits.
Mr. Silver has signaled so far that he will not even try to undo the Governor's cuts; he has indicated he is determined to force Mr. Pataki to live with the political consequences of eliminating popular spending programs in an election year -- and perhaps feel enough heat to ultimately compromise and give the Legislature some of what it wants.
Or the near-ubiquitous use of the misleading term "loopholes" by pols of both parties who don't want to talk about eliminating popular tax subsidies.
