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House Democrats gloated over Reagan's Social Security compromise. "The Senate is basically saying, 'All this we put together is for naught,' " said Tony Coelho. "They've chosen the House budget to work with." The question was, could either the House or Senate version be revised under the framework established at the Oak Tree meeting to achieve $50 billion in deficit reductions, which both sides still say is their goal? Domenici professed "great skepticism...
Sure, these indie-rockers are entertainers, and good ones at that, but placing them in a museum setting reminds listeners that they are artists, first and foremost, and paints them in just such a light. “Having them perform outside the clubs gives them a different framework,” notes Hirsch, delighting in the obvious truth of his statement...
...structure can manage a decentralized market economy. In India, as a senior New Delhi-based U.S. official said recently, "that question is settled." Messy and frustrating to international investors though it may often be, India's commitment to democracy, to checks and balances, to regional autonomy, has provided a framework in which manifold economic and political interests can coexist peaceably?just about...
...diasporic people, the black political tradition has long articulated its programs and philosophies within a framework that is transnational. Blacks, as a political community, have levied moral demands and imperatives on each other that are untied to national citizenship or cultural belonging, and instead grounded in the intensely humbling experience of existing outside, or on the margins, of humanity. Concretely, this has produced amazingly inclusive conceptions of humanity and stringent demands on one’s responsibility to the world that are unmatched within the dominant American ethos...
...receive a €4 billion annual rebate on its payments. In 1984, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won the rebate for Britain by demanding: "I want my money back", and holding up E.U. business for months until she got it. E.U. leaders are supposed to fix a new budget framework this year for 2007-2013, and already there's disagreement over whether to increase the current €100 billion total by 1% - as France, Germany and some other fiscally-strapped members want - or by substantially more, as new members such as Poland are demanding. On the Continent, the rebate...