If the proposal on tomorrow's ballot is approved, practically all City Council members, the mayor, the public advocate and the comptroller could be dumped on the same day -- the good and the bad, whatever their years of experience, all gone, all at once.
There is no dispute that there was torture, that it was systematic, and that it was encouraged at the highest levels — George W. Bush, in his memoir, currently adorning the best-seller lists, practically boasts of approving it.
But Long's bunting suggestion was not approved by management because Girardi practically mocked it Wednesday when he said, "We're not the Bronx bunters".
"If a school district wants to purchase ground beef from an approved vendor, without LFTB, it's practically impossible because it's just not available -- most of the beef contains the low-grade filler," Cooper says.
The House was said to be prepared to accept the Senate version, which is practically unchanged from a bill that the small business panel approved in June 2009, on the theory that half a loaf would be better than nothing.
Under a policy approved this month by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the name of practically every part of Los Angeles County's sprawling transit system will be up for sale, from train stations and bus lines to maintenance facilities, ticketing machines and parking garages.
Yet to exclude from the approved armamentarium of prevention any strategies that do not permanently change behavior seems odd both scientifically and practically.
They don't always get approved, and certainly watching sausage being made is unappetizing, but only a deeply biased observer could call it "practically nothing".
Under pressure to verify the accuracy of the LC50 data, the EPA reassessed eight approved dispersants and found that Corexit 9500 was only "slightly toxic" to the aquatic invertebrate Americamysis bahia and "practically nontoxic" to M. beryllina.
The new administration approved 8.9 billion euros ($11.5 billion) in spending cuts Friday and maintained a freeze on civil servants' salaries and a freeze on practically all government hiring, said Soraya Sáenz de Santamaria, a government spokeswoman.
Luxembourg makes cross-border mergers practically impossible by demanding that 100% of fund holders approve them.
