unfettered, bailout , both sides of the aisle16, rake over the coals. .

As long as Google has a set of millions of books that it uniquely can offer to the public, he argues, it has a monopoly it can exploit. You want that 1953 treatise on German state planning? You’ll have to pay. Or, more seriously, your library wants unfettered access to these millions of books? You’ll have to subscribe.

THE past few weeks have been a time to reflect on the legacy of the Bush administration. It has not been a kind time for George W. Bush. Most analyses have been harsh, raking him over the coals for everything from Hurricane Katrina to Abu Ghraib to the financial meltdown to his advocacy of nearly unfettered executive power. I would join in many of those criticisms. But there is one area where President Bush’s legacy will be strong and admirable — the way he is leaving office.

—Idiom

16.	rake over the coals. coal (def. 8).

rake, haul, drag, call, or take over the coals, to reprimand; scold: They were raked over the coals for turning out slipshod work.

Today's Papers: Bail Me Out Tonight

The Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times lead with news that the Bush administration and Congressional leaders are moving closer to agreeing on the $700-billion bailout plan for financial firms. The LAT says that in its rush to pass the plan, the Bush administration is agreeing to measures that "would have been inconceivable even a few weeks ago." But deep skepticism remains on both sides of the aisle and suddenly lawmakers aren't being shy about questioning whether the plan would really succeed in shoring up the nation's ailing financial system.

$700 Billion Is Sought for Wall Street in Massive Bailout

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN 3:22 PM ET

The Bush administration is requesting virtually unfettered authority for the Treasury to buy mortgage-related assets.

THE AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union, in a letter we printed yesterday, accused us of backing a surveillance bill that would give the president "unfettered power to spy on Americans," reducing the role of the court overseeing the surveillance to "little more than serving as a rubber stamp."
(The Washington Post)

WSJ

Developers could, for instance, more easily create services that take advantage of users' Global Positioning System location, contact lists and Web-browsing habits. They also would be able to interact with Google Maps and other Google applications. The idea is that a range of new social networking, mapping and other services would emerge, just as they have on the open, mostly unfettered Web. Google, meanwhile, could gather user data to show targeted ads to cellphone users.

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on both sides of the aisle
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bail sb/sth out (HELP), UK ALSO bale sb out phrasal verb [M]
to help a person or organization that is in difficulty, usually by giving or lending them money:
She keeps running up huge debts and asking friends to bail her out.

bailout Show phonetics
noun [C usually singular] MAINLY US
Three years of huge losses forced the bank to seek a government bailout.
The Clinton administration last winter assembled the $50 billion emergency bailout package to ease a financial crisis in Mexico.

unfettered Hide phonetics
adjective FORMAL ━━ a. 足かせ［束縛］を除かれた; 自由な.
not limited by rules or any other controlling influence:
In writing poetry, one is unfettered by the normal rules of sentence structure.