Word: blueprint
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...President offers higher taxes and modest spending cuts, but Congress and lobbyists may tear into his blueprint...
...seemed to give way to an impressive and possibly even dangerous clarity. In his address to Congress this week, the President would put on the line his entire agenda and all his hopes for the next four years. "This," a senior Democrat said of the speech, "is Clinton's blueprint for governing." Clinton is consciously calling down a day of reckoning -- for both the Administration and the American people...
...really encouraged by what I saw at the tournament," Head Coach David Fish said. "It gave us a much clearer blueprint of what we have to do as a team to win the league title and gain as NCAA berth...
...accompanied by a number of other retreats and conversions, which revived the lingering impression of Clinton as a "pander bear" who would say anything to get elected. His aides backed away from a promise to trim the White House staff 25%; plans to present an economic blueprint on Jan. 21 were postponed six weeks. After condemning as "callous" the Bush policy of turning back boatloads of Haitians, including those with valid asylum claims, Clinton had to reverse himself when he found out that as many as 10,000 Haitians were preparing to brave dangerous seas once he was sworn...
...which represents other ethnic groups in addition to the Muslims, who make up 44% of the population, to accept partition of the country. The two mediators have designed an elaborate scheme for twisting Bosnia into 10 autonomous provinces, to be ethnically apportioned among Muslims, Serbs and Croats. The patchwork blueprint can hardly be mapped, let alone offer a structure capable of standing up to the waves of hatred that flow through the real Bosnia. Rather than tamping down ethnic animosity, the design seems to guarantee perpetual quarreling; it would also hand the Serbs the fruits of their "ethnic cleansing." Owen...