But in March, after leaving her post as New Jersey's governor to head the E.P.A. under President Bush, Christie Whitman reversed the new standard, citing concerns about its cost to implement.
He said he felt his client was being held to an unfairly high standard, citing next-door neighbors who "don't want these trees to come down because they don't have a single tree on their property.
"Will is an architect who, in theory, I should really hate his work," said Rowan Moore, the architecture critic of The Evening Standard, citing Mr. Alsop's exuberant, often oppositional, individualism.
And some designers said it was misleading to equate thinness with being unhealthy and that the standard cited by the organizers in Madrid did not take into account age and puberty, which may cause a model who is unusually tall to appear frighteningly thin.
The Hong Kong Standard, citing "well-informed sources," said the police believed that the arrested individuals planned attacks in Beijing during the Chinese New Year festival of late January and early this month, possibly in revenge for the deaths and executions of Uighur separatists involved in the unrest in Xinjiang a year ago.
The Yes on 23 campaign Web site says that diesel and gasoline prices would increase by about $3.7 billion a year under AB 32's low carbon fuel standard, citing a report from Sierra Research, a consultant to the government and the private sector in air pollution control.
It gives the benefit of the doubt to a person who claims self-defense, regardless of whether the killing takes place on a street, in a car or in a bar — not just in one's home, the standard cited in more restrictive laws.
In 1983, the DPMA withdrew its opposition to the standard, citing the responsiveness of the committee to public concerns.
Perhaps we should look to the very poll the Evening Standard cited that's supposed to tell us the public would be on board.
Napolitano said 60% of California's highways don't meet that standard, citing a state study that blamed accidents, weather and other unpredictable events for the slow speeds.
