ATLANTIC How Tarullo Shaped Financial Oversight | Daniel K. Tarullo, a Federal Reserve governor, has been aggressive in his push to strengthen financial regulation and implement the Dodd-Frank Act, Bloomberg News writes.
Also today, gun-control advocates began a new push to strengthen the firearms laws in Massachusetts, which are already considered the tightest in the nation.
The new deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, believes he can prevail over cabinet colleagues as the Nationals renew their push to strengthen Australia's competition laws.
Their push to strengthen border security, they said, was given a boost by a Congressional Budget Office report released Tuesday that found that the current bill — without any additional border security provisions — would decrease annual illegal immigration by only 25 percent.
Ms. Zulu said regional leaders had strongly backed Mr. Zuma's push to strengthen the electoral institutions needed to ensure that Zimbabweans will be able to vote without fear of reprisals.
The American batteries will be part of a broader push to strengthen Turkey's defenses that will include the deployment of four other Patriot batteries — two from Germany and two from the Netherlands.
The Democratic state representative Karla Drenner, who opposed the measure, said it was part of a backlash against a national push to strengthen gun control laws after the murder of 26 children and adults in Connecticut.
Lagarde, the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund, has renewed the global financial institution's push to strengthen the role of women in the world economy, arguing that doing so can raise growth prospects and improve development.
MPs raised the timetable clash as an example of the concentration of power in the executive and most candidates pledged they would push to strengthen the legislature against the executive and beef up the powers of backbenchers.
LONDON — A Western-led push to strengthen backing for Syria's rebels gained momentum on Friday as leaders of a new umbrella group, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, met here with officials from Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar and other Arab states.
