Word: planning
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...father?s presidency. He doesn?t want the next one called Bush 2. But he also hopes to use the prospect of trouble ahead as a rationale for his proposal to cut taxes by $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years. As he said last month, ?A tax-relief plan for everybody serves as an insurance policy against a potential economic downturn...
...stage, particularly over missile defense. Putin currently has most of the European NATO members in his camp on this one right now, and turning them around will take some skillful diplomacy. Moscow and Beijing recently vowed to expand their own missile capabilities if Washington proceeds with the missile shield plan, which may make most U.S. allies dig their heels in for fear of reviving the arms race. There are also looming crises for Western interests along Russia?s borders, with Moscow likely to turn up the economic and political heat on their pro-NATO neighbors in Georgia and Ukraine...
...Clinton Legacy: Clinton has fought hard to back the embattled government, and won bipartisan support for his plan. But a growing number of skeptics in his own party, and in the U.S. armed forces, believe the policy is unlikely to end either Colombia's civil war or narcotics traffic from the region...
...country's objections to "any agreement between Palestinians and Israelis that may be related to the issue of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon without Lebanon being party to the agreement." Of course that means Syria has to come too - and Thursday the mouthpiece Syria Times nixed the proposals too. The plan "delivers (to Israel) its longtime goal of annexing portions of Palestinian lands and depriving refugees of their right to return to their homes and villages...
...that. Bush will likely send the plan to Congress as is already, but he knows that's just the beginning. ("The president proposes, Congress disposes" is the official catch-phrase.) And Bush has signaled his willingness to frontload the plan a little to get that spending cash on the street in time for it to do some good...