Word: avoiding
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...with a specific rebuttal but mostly with complaints about Gore's "phony numbers" and "fuzzy math." Bush's advisers say this was partly a result of who Bush is - "It's not his manner" to rebut statistics with statistics, says Rove - and partly because his debate strategy was to avoid getting dragged into the policy weeds with Gore and instead stay sunny and above the fray. But Bill Bradley tried a version of that during the primaries, not refuting Gore when he hammered Bradley's health-care plan, and by the time Bradley realized his mistake, the voters had written...
...want to avoid any personal attacks. I promise not to bring up your singing," Cheney joked...
...system. As Barro has written, Social Security's return is so low--lower, in fact, than the Treasury bonds in which it invests-- because today's workers must pay for today's retirees. No program that takes money out of the system and puts it into private accounts can avoid the obligation to pay for current retirees, which would lower the returns. Bush's repeated comparison of the returns on Social Security and safe government, which surfaced again in the first presidential debate, therefore approaches the level of a simple falsehood...
...national saving essential. Furthermore, we would like to see retirement security addressed as part of a general policy to reduce poverty and improve income security for all Americans, rather than as an isolated program. In this election, however, the more pressing needs are to resist self-delusion and to avoid speculating on Social Security...
...course the leaders of the Middle East are long accustomed to reaching deals over the heads of their chagrined citizenry, and there's no reason to doubt that they'll carefully manage the current enmity to avoid it escalating into a full-blown war. But it's equally clear now that Arafat will feel emboldened against pressure to accept current U.S. and Israeli formulae on the future of Jerusalem. And that, together with the domestic political situation of each of his negotiating partners, is likely to postpone any final accord for months, if not years...