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...overnight -- making him one of only five world leaders to do so -- and introduced him to his mother and grandchildren. More tangibly, Bush promised to guarantee the repayment of up to $10 billion in bank loans Israel will obtain over five years to energize its economy and help it absorb immigrants from the former Soviet Union...
...most sure of himself and for a cause in which he deeply believed. "This is in some ways a harder test for him," says a Bush campaign official. The President is now "forced to compete on the Democrats' home field" of domestic and economic policy. He also must absorb "a really unsettling rejection" of his campaign -- not only in opinion polls but even among his erstwhile Republican allies in Congress, who are alarmed at new surveys that show Bush is hurting their re- election chances...
...hector his unwilling country into the arms of European culture. During the 19th century, Slavophiles argued that the spiritual and communal culture based on Orthodoxy was superior to the materialism and rationalism of the West. Their opponents, the Westernizers, bemoaned Russia's "Asiatic" backwardness. They wanted their country to absorb as much of Western economics, politics and culture as quickly as possible...
...Americans agree with Bush. More immigrants arrived on these shores in the 1980s than in any other decade in the country's history. Last year alone, the U.S. absorbed 1.8 million foreigners. A majority of Americans, some 55%, want a moratorium on new arrivals, according to a Roper survey. "How many can we absorb in a time of recession and high unemployment?" argues Representative E. Clay Shaw, a Republican supporter of Bush's. "We've got to protect our shores, our people...
...making network use as appealing as possible,the University faces a number of considerations,from whether the system will be accessible for IBMowners to whether the FAS budget should absorb thecosts of providing access to individual users,says Martin...