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These comprehensive reforms have not defused opposition to NAFTA. A number of other specific objectives should therefore be outlined, including: a timetable for compliance, a proportionate distribution of financial burdens and levying fines on persistent polluters as opposed to across-the-board trade sanctions...
Harvard could set up a "Friends of Harvard Sports" fund to encourage across-the-board gifts. Some might say that alums wouldn't donate to such a fund, even in times of crises. But only the most cynical alumni with deep pockets would allow certain hurting sports to die. That would hurt athletics at Harvard and the College as a whole. Athletic department officials and coaches of the big-money teams can push wealthy alums to give to the general good...
...isolationist national policy would allow for the creation of a similar organization, perhaps at the cost of an across-the-board cut of foreign aid. This method would seem to be the best way of bringing American dollars back home, regardless of President Bush's existing foreign trade plans...
...question? You've got a 1% across-the-board tax-cut proposal that costs $125 billion. How do you propose to pay for that? You're double- counting...
DARMAN: The President has not made a formal 1% rate-cut proposal. He has said that insofar as we can achieve budgetary savings that would allow additional tax relief, some of that should go to an across-the-board...