In a stance that advocates of the pathway label "provincial elitism," those living near the riverbank here have turned the proposal into a campaign issue.
A day after Vice President Al Gore called for tapping federal oil reserves, Gov. George W. Bush sought to turn the proposal into a test of character.
While top Republicans insisted that they remained committed to the Medicare initiative, which had become the target of intense attacks by Democrats and liberal groups in recent weeks, the lawmaker who would have to turn the proposal into legislation said he had no plans to do so any time soon.
But some Germans are highly sensitive about giving up authority over their large public banking system, which is partly controlled by states, districts and cities, and that has cast some doubts over the goal of turning the proposal into European law by the year's end.
In the same interview, Abbas admitted that the previous Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, offered him 97% of the West Bank, a recognition of the right of return and the actual resettlement of thousands of Palestinian refugees inside Israel, yet he still turned the proposal down.
The commission must now consider turning the proposal into legislation; it has until early June to respond.
One of Us, a so-called European citizens' initiative, has collected 1.7 million signatures from all 28 E.U. member states for a proposal that would block funding for research in which embryos are destroyed; under E.U. rules, the European Commission must now consider turning the proposal into legislation.
The Urdu press went berserk, turning the proposal into a dark conspiracy aimed at undermining Pakistani sovereignty.
However, despite guarantees for the loan coming from the club itself and two local breweries, both chaired by club chairman John Henry Davies, the Cheshire Lines Committee turned the proposal down.
A plan for using newly available jet aircraft and nuclear weapons to wage a possible future war with the United States was laid out by Novikov and shown to Nikita Khrushchev, who turned the proposal down in favor of ballistic missiles.
