Word: framework
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...Israel is truly committed to peace with the Palestinians, it must first return the deportees. Otherwise, it would be ridiculous for the negotiations to continue, as they are organized around the framework of U.N. resolutions. Israel's violation of U.N. resolutions and Geneva Convention articles regarding the deportees suggests similar attitudes towards other U.N. resolutions and robs the negotiations of any legitimacy...
...secondly, will fundamentally change the patterns of spending not only of government money but, to whatever extent we can influence it, private expenditures toward more investment over the long run. And thirdly, we will offer a multiyear deficit- reduction plan. I might even go, in terms of the framework, beyond four years in what I recommend. Because if you look at the numbers we're looking at now, two things have basically changed dramatically since we got the numbers on which we put out Putting People First ((the Clinton-Gore campaign book...
...health care. Now I think we can fix a lot of that. People know it took 12 years to get into this trough we're in. And I think they'll tolerate taking maybe eight years to get out of it. But I need to put together a framework that goes beyond the typical discussion of long...
...Magaziner, contributed heavily to the lyrics of the Clinton economic plan, most agree that the music came straight from Reich. Says John Isaacson, founder of an executive-search firm in Boston, and a friend of both Clinton's and Reich's: "The Work of Nations provided a conceptual framework for the whole campaign." Gene Sperling, economic-issues director for the campaign (and a former research assistant for Reich), goes further: "Bob is the person most responsible for how progressive Democrats talk about economic growth today...
...policy, the President-elect pledged to steer a middle course between all- out deficit reduction and gangbusters stimulation of the economy. His goal is "to bring this deficit down . . . gradually and within a framework which permits us to substantially increase investment" (good luck). On legislative strategy, Clinton said he would emulate, of all people, Ronald Reagan and pack "a whole lot of changes into omnibus bills . . . the fewer votes ((in Congress)) you have, the better off you are." The President-elect summoned congressional leaders to a Sunday huddle in Little Rock, and was then to leave the Arkansas capital...