Premise: According to VA, this rulemaking action does not impose unfunded mandates under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.

Hypothesis: The reform is a good thing to save tax money.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: But does the film subvert Eastwood's on-screen persona, as Schickel argues it does?

Hypothesis: Schickel believes that the film subverts Eastwood's typical on-screen persona
Answer: yes

Premise: A Nation of Spendthrifts?

Hypothesis: There are no spendthrifts in America.
Answer: no

Premise: The four weekly events an op-ed in the style of the New York Times (750 words or thereabouts); a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece (750 words or thereabouts); the first 1,000 words of a Vanity Fair profile; and a breaking news story (750 words or thereabouts).

Hypothesis: The NY Times style op-ed should be roughly 750 words.
Answer: yes