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According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood's research arm), 10 percent of all college-age women become pregnant. Further, the Institute's research indicates that most women would prefer not to have an abortion, but are driven to make that choice primarily because they lack financial resources and emotional support...
Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan is one of the few public figures who enjoys the utmost respect from politicians on both sides of the aisle. He is known for his impeccable empirical analyses, impressive economic instincts and a tremendous influence on world markets...
Bush aides were calling it a dream first week--even before Thursday, when Bush's big across-the-board tax cut got a huge boost from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. The Fed chief, who was the first village elder Bush went to see on his initial trip to Washington as President-elect, put forward last week the mind-bending idea that it was actually possible to pay off the national debt too fast. He told Congress that some sort of tax cut might do "noticeable good" if the economy keeps heading south...
This time, however, he has a small audience who thinks he may be right. "George is signal," says a Fed adviser, referring to the high noise-signal ratio among advice givers to Alan Greenspan. Inside the Bush Administration there has been a move to push economic and security policymaking together, a recognition that on the world stage America's dollars are as important as its missiles. Soros just wants to help target where those dollars are pointed. He's not sure American pockets should be target No. 1. He gives a lot of his money away to support these views...
...Alan Greenspan did yeoman's work on that last one in his recent Senate testimony; Monday, Bush followed up his novelty-check event with a private lunch with the Fed chairman to discuss matters both fiscal and monetary. (As in, you're sure you don't mind if I keep telling people a tax cut can save the economy, even though you say it won't? Because it's my best leverage with the Democrats.) And then it's back on the trail...