Word: across-the-board
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...across-the-board advising change, for example, would have to go through the full Faculty, and longstanding tradition allows departments to dictate their own advising policy--so while Lewis says his report has raised awareness of the advising issue, it has not yet produced large-scale changes...
...care more about cutting taxes or preventing abortions than they do about banning soft money or saving the Kosovar Albanians. And that may be a problem for McCain. Asked what he learned from Bob Dole's failed campaign in 1996, in which Dole listlessly touted a 15% across-the-board income-tax cut, McCain replies, "If you don't believe in it, don't say it. And if you do believe in it, say it with some passion." And sure enough, when McCain talks about the "corruption" caused by the way campaigns are financed, he is all passion: his eyes...
...discounts offered by on-line booksellers, Burkin says that for years before Amazon.com was offering across-the-board savings, WordsWorth already discounted every title every...
...discounts offered by on-line booksellers, Burkin says that for years before Amazon.com was offering across-the-board savings, WordsWorth already discounted every title every...
Having already agreed to Clinton's insistence that 62% of each year's budget surplus be set aside for Social Security, many G.O.P. members fear that pushing an across-the-board income-tax cut could lead to disaster as Democrats bash them for favoring the rich (who would benefit most from such a cut). So moderates have lined up behind a far less ambitious package of targeted, Clinton-style tax breaks crafted by Connecticut's Nancy Johnson. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, who only two weeks ago was flogging the 10% cut at a town-hall meeting in Michigan...