Word: plan
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...problem?" Bush asked. Sadler told him that holding back students because they failed a single test wasn't fair. "You've got the conservative part of this down," he gibed. "Let me give you the compassionate part." Bush laughed. "Where you want to go with it?" Sadler outlined a plan for remediation, second chances, summer school and a grade-placement committee to catch mistakes. Bush was worried about diluting standards. "It was a very detailed discussion," says Sadler. "We talked about philosophy, and we talked about bricks and mortar. It was not just a vision thing--he knows his stuff...
DEATH OF A TAX PLAN...
...find compromise between the two versions. He turned the Governor's office into a war room, jawboned the Republican and Democratic caucuses, met with smaller groups and individual legislators--and discovered the limits of the personal approach to politics. He couldn't get enough Republicans to vote for a plan that smelled like a tax increase, even though its offsetting tax cuts were much larger. The bill was dead--and that, says Laney, "is when he grabbed his little piece of his pie." The $1 billion budget surplus was still on the table, and Bush used it to fund...
...plants to clean up. Bush's insistence on a voluntary approach--an attitude shared by Marquez, a former executive at Monsanto--quashed that idea. In early 1997, Bush's team held a series of private meetings with oil-, gas- and chemical-industry leaders and invited them to draft a plan for a voluntary emission-reduction program. The secret meetings came to light last summer, when an Austin activist named Peter Altman filed an open-records request. Despite cries from environmentalists, the plan passed the legislature, in only slightly tougher form, last year. Bush says he is proud...
...course. It sounds wacky, but if Philip Morris lost more often, the market might not worry so much about its stock. If you're patient and can get past the moral issues, Philip Morris is a compelling stock--doubly so if you invest for income or, like my friend, plan to sock it away in a tax-deferred...