Word: view
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...just giving people straight cash and trusting them to do with it as they please. (He offers a few tax credits, but they aren't central to his plan.) As such, the argument between the candidates over tax cuts reflects a fundamental difference in how Republicans and Democrats view the world. "Gore is focused on achieving social objectives, as opposed to tax relief," says Reischauer. "The goal of Bush's plan is tax relief, pure and simple...
...hope, ideas and energy. His critics fault the slow pace of reform he has brought to the U.N. They argue that even armed with a management degree from M.I.T., he is badly overmatched by the U.N.'s thick bureaucracy. But mostly they chew away at his idealistic, moral world view. The U.N. continues to have its problems--the embarrassment of having peacekeepers taken hostage in Sierra Leone, the contempt of the U.S. Congress. But these haven't diminished the high polish he has brought to the job. Annan, 62, is a miracle of our internationalized world: born in Ghana, educated...
...attend congressional hearings set for this week. He has promised to release all company documents showing what Ford knew and when it knew it; his counterpart at Bridgestone/Firestone, CEO Masatoshi Ono, will also be there. Both are sure to incur the wrath of politicians fed up with what they view as stonewalling. "This whole thing stinks," said Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who is chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection. "You can't tell me someone at Firestone or Ford didn't know they had serious problems with these tires long before the body count started...
...demagogues. They oppose the idea of a national apology for past treatment of the Aborigines - a deserved and, in liberal opinion, an essential gesture of goodwill - by saying all this happened in their grandfathers' time, and the living bear no responsibilities for it. This is Prime Minister Howard's view too, although - significantly enough - he is quick to drape himself in the nobler emblems of Australian history with which his generation had nothing to do, such as the heroism of the soldiers at Gallipoli...
...criticism of a president and a vice president, and the record they have built together." He even came with what Regis Philbin likes to call a lifeline, directing reporters to call Colin Powell if they didn't believe Cheney. (Said a non-strident Powell: "I agree with his view...