Tournament: UNI | Round: Octas | Opponent: Michigan MM | Judge:
A. Interpretation- Energy production is the generation of power from raw materials – excludes extraction of those materials
Vaekstfonden 6 Vaekstfonden is a Danish government backed investment fund that facilitates the supply of venture capital in terms of start-up equity and high-risk loans "THE ENERGY INDUSTRY IN DENMARK- perspectives on entrepreneurship and venture capital" No Specific Cited, Latest Data From 2006 s3.amazonaws.com/zanran_storage/www.siliconvalley.um.dk/ContentPages/43667201.pdf

In all, 20 industry experts  ... is part of the consumption stage.

Tournament: UNI | Round: Octas | Opponent: Michigan MM | Judge:
The affirmative drive to produce energy to increase our national security is a mask that drives massive capitalist expansion
ICConline 11 on August 16, 2011, “Nuclear energy, capitalism and communism”
http://en.internationalism.org/wr/347/nuclear

The revolution in the form and  ... threatens the future of humanity today.

Capitalism is unsustainable and extinction is inevitable--Movements solve now, but the plan derails them
The alternative is to reject the aff

Magdoff and Foster, 2010
(Fred and John Belamy, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism”, Monthly Review, Volume 61, Issue 10) 

The foregoing analysis, if correct ... ostensibly for, the people.57

Tournament: UNI | Round: Octas | Opponent: Michigan MM | Judge:
The Federal Judiciary should amend the decision in United States vs California to affirm coastal state ownership of the Outer Continental Shelf.
The fifty United States and all relevant subnational actors should substantially reduce restrictions on offshore natural gas production in the United States.

Amending US v California solves

Salcido 8 Copyright (c) 2008 by the Tulane Law Review Association Tulane Law Review  March, 2008  Tulane Law Review  82 Tul. L. Rev. 1355  LENGTH: 43609 words  ARTICLE: Offshore Federalism and Ocean Industrialization  NAME: Rachael E. Salcido*  BIO: * © 2008 Rachael E. Salcido. Associate Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. B.A. 1996, J.D. 1999, University of California, Davis.

Much of the current crisis in  ... mile border conflict that continues today.

CP solves better, avoids environment concerns and reinvigorates federalism

Dunlop 8 Offshore Drilling: An Alternative to Funding Terrorism University of Missouri-Kansas City Federalist Society  Kansas City, MO  October 29, 2008  Becky Norton Dunlop University of Kansas Federalist Society  Lawrence, Kansas  October 30, 2008  Becky Norton Dunlop http://www.heritage.org/about/speeches/offshore-drilling-an-alternative-to-funding-terrorism 

Conservatives believe that policy and politics  ... invention of new and better technologies. 

federalism is modeled and solves global war

Calabresi 94 (Steven, Calabresi, Assistant Prof – Northwestern U., 1994, Michigan Law Review, p. 831-2)

First, the rules of constitutional  ... the importance of what is at stake

Tournament: UNI | Round: 3 | Opponent: Michigan CM | Judge:
A. Interpretation- Production must be on the grid production of energy
NASA 2011 NASA Scientific and Technical Information. Scope and Subject Category Guide, http://www.sti.nasa.gov/sscg/44.html

Energy Production - The production of  ... National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. 

Tournament: UNI | Round: 3 | Opponent: Michigan CM | Judge:
A. Interpretation- In means within – this is the core meaning
Encarta World English Dictionary, 7 (“In (1)”, 2007, http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861620513)

in  in  CORE MEANING ... somebody is within or inside something. 

Tournament: UNI | Round: 3 | Opponent: Michigan CM | Judge:
Uniqueness – US is avoiding dependence on China for rare earths 

Kramer 12/12/11 (David, “Rare-earth metals shortage eases, for now”, http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/politics_and_policy/rare-earth_metals_shortage_eases_for_now, ) 

China’s stranglehold on world supplies of  ... , electronics, and other applications.

Solar panels force dependence on China for tellurium 

Burnett ’11 – senior fellow @ NCPA, Ph.D from Bowling Green State (H. Sterling, “Will Green Energy Make the United States Less Secure?”, Nov 1, http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ib103, )

Green Technologies Come with Strings Attached ... is found as a trace element. 

Dependence on China will collapse civilization 

Adams 10 – Mike Adams, Editor of NaturalNews, January 26, 2010, “Global supply of rare earth elements could be wiped out by 2012,” online: http://www.naturalnews.com/028028_rare_earth_elements_mining.html, 

It's the bubble you've probably never  ... which much of western civilization rests. 

Tournament: UNI | Round: 3 | Opponent: Michigan CM | Judge:
The United States Department of Defense should provide a direct grant for laser powered unstaffed aerial vehicles.

Laser power drones are proven to work and have indefinite endurance

Skyler Frink  Assistant Editor July 12, 2012 “Lockheed Martin and LaserMotive use laser to power UAV for 48 hours”,   http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2012/07/lockheed-martin-and-lasermotive-use-laser-to-power-uav-for-48-hours.html 

Lockheed Martin NYSE: LMT ... a need to land the UAV.

Tournament: UNI | Round: 5 | Opponent: Northwestern BW | Judge:
First, restriction is a regulation
the free dictionary 2005 ("restriction," http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/restriction

restriction n. any limitation on  ... into the title of each owner.

And, on indicates the object of restriction
Merriam-Webster 2012
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on?show=0andt=1345475371

a —used as a function  ... salt short on cash

This means the restriction has to intend to directly divert production
Ludwig von Mises Institute, no date (XXIX. RESTRICTION OF PRODUCTION
The Nature of Restriction, accessed 8/16/12, http://mises.org/humanaction/chap29sec1.asp) 

We shall deal in this chapter  ... compared with the consequences of nonintervention.

Tournament: UNI | Round: 5 | Opponent: Northwestern BW | Judge:
The Supreme Court of the United States should rule that antidumping tariffs on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from the People’s Republic of China are unconstitutional because the Department of Commerce does not have to power to impose tariffs. 

Only congress has the power to impose tariffs- DOC solar tariffs are unconstitutional

LAWRENCE M. REICH, J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1998; A.B., Duke University, 1995, January, 1998, 86 Geo. L.J. 751, Georgetown Law Journal, Lexis

As noted above, the Constitution  ... incident to the Presidential office." n115 

Tournament: UNI | Round: 5 | Opponent: Northwestern BW | Judge:
Tight silicon supplies drive up the cost of silicon- currently electronics makers can afford the prices but new solar would trade off
Hasan 08, President of Altenews.com. (The Solar Silicon Shortage and Its Impact on Solar Power Stocks, http://www.solarhome.org/newsthesolarsiliconshortage.html, accessed July 7, 2008)

There is, however, one  ... due to the solar silicon shortage. 

High demand for Silicon leads to shortages and low quality silicon
Desbarres 08 Solar PV industry: cutting corners to offset silicone supply limitations? 20th June 2008 By Alex Desbarres Energy Business Review Online 08, (June 20, http://www.energy-business-review.com/article_feature_print.asp?guid=3939CC2C-CFE3-4425-92A5-A87D00E5BB00, July 7, 2008)

Therefore, as subsidy changes in  ... cost of cell efficiency and quality.

Shortages will crush computer chipmakers
The San Francisco Chronicle 06 (“Chip material shortage spooks Silicon Valley”, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/04/MNGIEKV0CS1.DTL, July 9,2008) 

Silicon Valley has weathered business cycles  ... very carefully for the long term."  

That’s key to growth and readiness- turns the aff
National Defense University 03 Electronics Industry Study Report: Semiconductors and Defense Electronics http://www.ndu.edu/ICAF/industry/reports/2003/pdf/2003_ELECTRONICS.pdf 

The Electronics Industry Study focused its  ... nation and the war-fighter.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity KV | Judge:
China DA: 1NC

Success in US solar industry trades off with Chinese solar development
Bradsher, New York Times Asian business Writer, 11 (Keith, September 1, “China Benefits as U.S. Solar Industry Withers,” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/business/global/us-solar-company-bankruptcies-a-boon-for-china.html, d/a 8-3-12, ads)

The bankruptcies of three American solar  ... in the United States and Europe.

Solar is key to China’s economy – massive investments and restructuring now
Xinhua News, 12 (July 9, “Slowdown spurs restructuring of China's economy,” http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-07/06/c_131700158.htm, d/a 8-3-12, ads)

The amount of photovoltaic capacity installed  ... Chinese government's measures to stabilize growth.

Chinese growth key to prevent CCP lashout
Shirk, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Director, 07 (Susan, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, responsible for U.S. relations with China, professor at UC-San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, “CHINA: FRAGILE SUPERPOWER,” http://atruechineserenaissance.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review.html, d/a 8-3-12, ads)

As China’s leaders well know,  ... lashing out might endanger Party rule.”

Nuclear and biological war
Renxing, Epoch Times Staff Writer, 05 (San, August 05, “The CCP’s Last-ditch Gamble: Biological and Nuclear War
Hundreds of millions of deaths proposed,” http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-5/30931.html, d/a 8-3-12, ads)

Since the Party’s life is above  ... the main theme of the speeches.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity KV | Judge:
The affirmative is caught in the trap of time. Thinking in terms of what is and what should be is precisely what prevents radical change. Short of an inward revolution, war, poverty, and global misery are inevitable.
Krishnamurti 71 (Jiddu Kirshnamurti, international author and speaker on philosophy and spirituality, Inward revolution: bringing about radical change in the world, Shambhala Publications, 1971, 2005, Pg. 120-124)

The mind has been put together  ... end. Do you see that?

Our alternative is Attention. Perceive, act, and forget the 1AC without the burden of yesterday. This is the only solution to violence and our cultural conditioning.
Krishnamurti 71 (Jiddu Kirshnamurti, international author and speaker on philosophy and spirituality, Inward revolution: bringing about radical change in the world, Shambhala Publications, 1971, 2005, Pg. 129-130)

Now, what is the machinery  ... , not burdened with yesterday’s perception. 

Thought produces our abstractions and ideas, which inhibits our ability to perceive the fundamental unity of everything in the alternative’s realm of no-thought. Our alternative is necessary to understand life and ethics.
Capra 75
Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, Shambhala 4th edition, 2000, orig. 1975, pg. 145-6

When the Eastern mystics tell us  ... the light appear is Tao.’

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Illinois State BS | Judge:
High oil prices are driving investment and growth in renewables
Armstrong 2011
Dan, Higher oil prices spur production of renewable energy resources, T Magazine, Ernst and Young, http://tmagazine.ey.com/insights/higher-oil-prices-spur-production-of-renewable-energy-sources/, accessed 7-14, ACS)
The past year has marked a  ... % reliance on renewables by 2020.

There is a substitution effect between nuclear and oil prices
Lee and Chiu 10
(Chien-Chiang, Yi-Bun – University Kaohsiung Taiwan;“Oilprices, nuclear energy consumption, and economic growth: New evidence using a heterogeneous panel analysis”; Energy Policy Volume 39, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 2111–2120) BHB
This paper applies panel data analysis  ... economic growth in the short run.

Low oil prices hurt renewable innovation

Fast Company 12(Founded by two former Harvard Business Review editors. "What Happens To Clean Technology Innovation If Oil Prices Drop?,"http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680107/what-happens-to-clean-technology-innovation-if-oil-prices-drop)
Peak oil, the point where  ... there will probably be major consequences.

Renewables solve nuclear war—multiple mechs (poverty decline, Mideast, terror, nuke power prolif)

Stephen Leeb et al, President, Leeb Capital Management, THE OIL FACTOR: PROTECT YOURSELF AND PROFIT FROM THE COMING OIL CRISIS, 2004, p. 205.

Those words resonated with us.  ... production of weapons-grade plutonium. 

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Illinois State BO | Judge:
States solve better and allowing rate regulation solves funding—federal incentives exclude key states like California which turns case

Ben-Moshe et al 9 FINANCING THE NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE: THE BENEFITS AND POTENTIAL PITFALLS OF FEDERAL and STATE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES AND THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR POWER IN CALIFORNIA Energy Law Journal Vol 30 No. 2 2009 Sony Ben-Moshe, Jason J. Crowell, Kelley M. Gale,* Breton A. Peace, Brett P. Rosenblatt, and Kelly D. Thomason * Kelley Michael Gale is the Finance Department Chair of Latham and Watkins‘ San Diego office and serves as global Co-Chair for the firm‘s Climate Change and Cleantech Practice Groups. He has thirty years of experience representing private and public sector clients in the development, regulation, and financing of alternative energy projects and capital intensive infrastructure projects.  The co-authors are attorneys in the Project Finance Practice Group in the San Diego office of Latham and Watkins LLP. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of Latham and Watkins LLP or its clients. 

Synopsis: Amidst increasing concerns of  ... to successfully commission a new project.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 7 | Opponent: Wichita State DO | Judge:
he Department of Energy should include substantially increasing market-fixed production cost incentives for domestic deployment of small modular nuclear reactors as part of a technology neutral options framework within the quadrennial energy review scheduled for 2013

Proposing the plan as part of a QER spurs congressional adoption and reinvigorates investor confidence in clean energy, but transparency and ongoing dialogue are key--plan fails because of agency fragmentation and regional differences

Moniz 12, Ernest J. “Stimulating Energy Technology Innovation.” Daedalus 141.2 (2012): 81–93. Web. 4 May 2012. 70514ERNEST J. MONIZ is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems and Director of the Energy Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy and as Associate Director for Science in the Of½ce of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Of½ce of the President during the Clinton administration. He currently serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.   © 2012 American Academy of Arts and Sciences As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00148 Publisher MIT Press Version Final published version Accessed Tue May 15 22:46:45 EDT 2012 Citable Link http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/ 

However, pcast recommended a pragmatic  ... earn decent buyin from major stakeholders.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge:
CP Text: The United States federal government should provide financing and all necessary support for the establishment of a neutral International Fuel Bank under IAEA leadership.

An International Fuel Bank solves prolif and closes the loophole in Article IV
Joseph Cirincione, Senior Fellow and Director for Nuclear Policy at the Center for American Progress And Andrew Grotto, Senior National Security Analyst at the Center for American Progress, “Contain and Engage” Center for American Progress, March 2007, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/pdf/iran_report.pdf, 

The United States and its partners ... for Iran to forego uranium enrichment. 

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge:
Accidents are inevitable with nuclear power
Ramana 11 (MV, with the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and is on the Coordinating Committee of the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, “No escape from accidents”) http://www.nirs.org/international/reachingcriticalwillreport.pdf 

In the aftermath of Fukushima and ... can be reduced through engineering efforts. 

Meltdowns cause extinction
Lendman 11 (Stephen, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, 03/ 13, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,”, The People’s Voice http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 8-2-12, RSR)

Reuters said the 1995 Kobe quake  ... , literally, an apocalyptic event.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mo State GN | Judge:
No clean tech bubble – bankruptcies and lack of federal support has slowed renewables but the market is stable
Smart Grid News 8/3/12 (“Cleantech investment opportunities to grow (just not where you might think)”, http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Technologies_Smart_Water/Cleantech-investment-opportunities-to-grow-just-not-where-you-might-think-5017.html, )

Quick Take: It may feel  ... term opportunities are safe to enter."

The plan results in a bubble that inevitably collapses the industry, turning case
Huber ’10 (Kelsey, currently a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation, “Energy Subsidies Prove Unsustainable”, Aug 5, http://blog.heritage.org/2010/08/05/energy-subsidies-prove-unsustainable/, 

There is nothing like economic hardship  ... is the key to good stewardship.

This will eliminate 20 trillion dollars and also disrupt commodities markets—this causes a depression
Billmon ‘8 (Economics Blogger, “The Next Bubble—Where?” 2-21, http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/02/alternative-ene.html)

Janszen calculates that the basic industry  ... preclude all bubbles for a while. 

Nuclear war
Khalilzad ’11 Zalmay was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush and the director of policy planning at the Defense Department from 1990 to 1992, “ The Economy and National Security”, 2-8-11, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259024, 

Today, economic and fiscal trends  ... to make aggressive moves in their regions

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 6 | Opponent: Kansas DW | Judge:
A. Interpretation: Financial incentives exclude procurement
Czinkota et al, 9 - Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University (Michael, Fundamentals of International Business, p. 69 – google books)

Incentives offered by policymakers to facilitate  ... , and investments in infrastructure facilities.

Tournament: Illinois State | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNI SS | Judge:
2 off

Interpretation: The affirmative must have the United States federal government increase incentives for solar energy – they don’t

A) Definitions

1) The United States federal government is the actor defined by the resolution, not individual debaters
US Gov Official Website 2009
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/federal.shtml

U.S. Federal Government  ... U.S. government's branches.

2) “Resolved” expresses intent to implement the plan

Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1996 http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=resolved, downloaded 07/20/03

“6. To change or  ... a committee of the whole.”

3) “Should” denotes an expectation of enacting a plan
American Heritage Dictionary 2000
www.dictionary.com

 ... 3 Used to express probability or expectation

4) Incentives are a bunch of things they aren’t

Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency 12
http://www.dsireusa.org/glossary/

DSIRE organizes incentives and policies that  ... – from the state sales tax.

Predictability outweighs–

a. Game failure

Sarratore 99
(Steven T. is Associate Professor of Theatre and Associate Dean of Fine  and Performing Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne “Design Games,” Theatre Topics 9.1) 

The design games offered below owe  ... -gamemaster ultimately controls the project.  

b. education and innovation

Sarratore 99
(Steven T. is Associate Professor of Theatre and Associate Dean of Fine  and Performing Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne “Design Games,” Theatre Topics 9.1) 

The development and implementation of design  ... manipulate the pieces  outside of the rules

Decisionmaking skills learned from policy debate over energy issues are key to actualizing political change
Hodson, professor of education – Ontario Institute for Studies @ University of Toronto, ‘10 (Derek, “Science Education as a Call to Action,” Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, Vol. 10, Issue 3, p. 197-206)
note: SSI = socioscientific issues

The final (fourth) level  ... discussion during the establishment of policy.

Broad topics destroy programs – empirical evidence – you should prefer limits 

Robin Rowland, University of Kansas, “Topic Selection in Debate,” AMERICAN FORENSICS IN PERSPECTIVE, ed. D.Parson, 1984, p. 53-54.

The first major problem identified by  ... small schools to cancel their programs. 

Tournament: Illinois State | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNI SS | Judge:
Embracing the affirmative is unnecessary to embrace excess or access their impact, but it does cause Nazism and extinction. THEY MISUNNDERSTAND DESIRE--capitalism ensures that the modern subject is already constituted in a violent relation to the Other, including an embrace of excess – but, going further towards sacrificial gesture ensures we end up in the gas chamber.  
Slavoj Zizek, you know, 1996, The Indivisible Remainder, p. 124-5
This notion of the modern,  ... pre-modern ‘pagan’ universe. 

It also means the affs acceptance of a more sacrificial violence prevents a realization of the radical negativity already inherent in capitalism—prevents the faulty Master Signifier of Capital from being exposed

Slavoj Zizek, Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana University, 2008, “Violence,” p. 58-63. 

European civilisation finds it easier to  ... contain the infinite are not."22

Our alternative is to recognize our metaphoric position as the Universally Excluded

Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses • part 1 Slavoj Zizek, 07 http://www.lacan.com/zizecology1.htm

How do these four antagonisms relate  ... of millions through his media empire. 

Tournament: Illinois State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Michigan HM | Judge:
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The 1AC constructs presence as a problem of quantity. They assume that there is some amount action or criticism that will alleviate the conditions of the world. This is a false dream. Capitalism, language, and the subject trap us in the politics of time – meanwhile the aff subjects itself to the capitalist order.  The time for business as usual is up. In place of the plan we offer a moment of rupture, a moment that resists the politics of business as usual and prepares us for space travel.
Lydenberg ’87 (Robin, Associate Prof of English at Boston College, “Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs’ Fiction.” p. 52-53)

The reversibility and flexibility of the  ... coordinated with a variety of texts.

Ultimate ethical responsibility to vote against that shit
Zizek and Daly 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek, 14-6)

For Zizek it is imperative that  ... 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.

The cut-up alone only shows us the door. To achieve immortality we must be prepared to take a step into the unknown. Burroughs’ immortality represents the moment when art leaves the frame and maps itself onto the world. This implosion of the boundary between reality and fiction unwrites static notions of truth perpetuated by the masters and colonizers. Writing fiction onto the world therefore sets the stage for the storytelling of the poor, which fuses a revolutionary force out of the atomized subjects of oppression. 

Murphy 97 (Timothy S., U of CA, “Wising Up The Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs”)

Burroughs's literary career is defined by  ... his own gloss on the phrase.

Tournament: Illinois State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Michigan HM | Judge:
http://i.imgur.com/C9n0g.jpg

Tournament: Illinois State  | Round: Semis | Opponent: Wayne State JS | Judge:
The President of the United States should issue a signing statement directing the Environmental Protection Agency that it does not have the constitutional authority to issue or enforce New Source Performance Standards and National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants reviews for natural gas production. The President of the United States should issue a signing statement directing federal agencies that they do not have the constitutional authority to issue or enforce further federal restrictions on natural gas production in the United States.

And, we’re functionally and textually competitive
Clinton V. New York 1998 (CLINTON v. CITY OF NEW YORK (97-1374) 985 F. Supp. 168, affirmed.)
a) The Act empowers the  ... . Pp. 17—24. 

Signing statements allow the president to nullify legislation—use significantly expands the power of the office
Phillip J. Cooper, “George W. Buh, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Use and Abuse of Presidential Signing Statements,” PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY v. 35 n. 3, 9—05, pp. 515-532.

The Bush administration has very effectively  ... the legislation that contained them into law

Strong presidency key to solving hegemony, nuclear war, and economy

Thomas E. Cronin and Michael A. Genovese, THE PARADOXES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, 1998.

A central question during the 1970s  ... usually more quickly adjust and adapt.