More contentious provisions would then be offered as amendments to that measure, officials said.
Now RY Management, with the backing of the condo board, has sought to add teeth to that measure by enacting a stringent new set of limits.
I do not think that China today is by any means close to that measure of openness compared with the United States of the 1950s and 1960s.
Republicans also object strongly to that measure, and Mr. Warner said the issue was still being negotiated this evening by himself, Mr. Levin and Mr. Rumsfeld.
Investigators could take a close look at how the bank reported risk for the chief investment office and whether changes it made to that measure were adequately disclosed.
It starts with the ideal: In principle, we could analyse all the numerous knock-on behavioural effects of each policy measure and attribute the overall impact on the public finances to that measure, a process known as 'dynamic scoring'.
According to that measure, which can be pretty volatile, employment has grown by an unlikely 850,000 on the month; but on the year, the increase of 2.3m is very close to that derived from the firms' count.
Senate Democrats said Thursday that they had reached an agreement with Republicans on a list of possible amendments to that measure, allowing the debate to proceed when Congress returns.
The American Civil Liberties Union, however, announced its opposition to that measure, stating that the list is "error-prone and unreliable, because it uses vague and overbroad criteria and secret evidence to place individuals on blacklists without a meaningful process to correct government error and clear their names".
As an alternative to that measure and another broadly backed by Democrats, Mr. McCain and Mr. Graham, along with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut, are trying to enlist support for a resolution that would set benchmarks for the Iraqi government and describe the troop increase as a final chance for the United States to restore security in Baghdad.
Thus, by stressing the revolutionary effect of a particular measure, for example, one stiffens the opposition to that measure on the part of those who wish to prevent the revolution, but one draws to the measure the favour of those who wait for the revolution to break out.
