Word: enough
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Well, you wouldn't know they were keen from the behavior of government officials or the cowed population on the street. The minders tried to keep the journalists cooped up inside the Hotel Koryo - clean and pleasant enough, with good Korean food, Japanese beer and working phone lines. The diplomats staying at the hotel were told in their pre-trip briefing in D.C. that they would be in the part of the hotel that was bugged and had surveillance, while the journalists were in the bug-free tower...
...supply-sider Larry Lindsey, trooped down to Austin with proposal after proposal to lower the marginal tax rate for all payers and eliminate Bush's tollgate. But the smart guys could never quite satisfy the governor; he kept demanding rewrites until he was convinced the plan did enough for working families to protect him from the charge that he was the Country Club Candidate. "Bush said it over and over," says Indiana businessman Al Hubbard, who helped organize the economic team. "You've got to deal with the lower end. So we went back to the drawing board...
...estate tax and marriage penalties are mixed in, Bush's plan still tilts heavily toward the rich. But the new cuts at the bottom end (worth at least $1,000 to a waitress mom making $22,000 a year) armed Bush with something Republicans have not recently been wise enough to bring along to the battle: tax cuts for those "real people." When the plan was released, it was criticized by Forbes for not being bold enough and by Gore for being unfair. "I must be doing something right," said Bush...
...World" to two of the five boroughs of New York City. Media sentimentalism ensued, nostalgic rhapsodies about the "subway series." My guess is that the rest of the country is satisfied to watch one New York team at a time - at most. One species of the lout is enough. Most people do not distinguish the mythologies of the Mets from those of the Yankees (it's not the same as the old Yankee-Dodger dichotomy) and so it was hard for outlanders to know which side to root...
...From the outset, Washington paid too much attention to Barak's operating style and not enough to Arafat's. The Camp David summit Clinton hastily convened last July was ideal for the Israeli prime minister - a hands-on manager who delegates little to his diplomats, Barak had convinced Clinton that the only way he and Arafat could reach a treaty was to isolate the two of them in a secluded spot where political enemies and the press couldn't "salami-slice" the concessions they'd have to make...