Word: gung
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...headliner, of course, is the tax cut. Now placeholding $1.35 trillion over 11 years (down from $1.6 trillion over 10), the details are henceforth largely in the hands of the House Ways and Means committee, which has the votes to pass whatever the gung-ho GOP leadership wants, and the Senate Finance committee, which doesn...
...news to the military, and stare down the backlash on Capitol Hill. And Rumsfeld's combination of true-blue conservative ideological stripes and CEO managerial skills made him the dream candidate. Cheney certainly had no doubts about that - Rumsfeld had been his mentor when the Vice President was a gung-ho congressman from Wyoming...
...Pentagon hastily explained late Wednesday that Secretary Rumsfeld had intended to say that military-to-military ties should be subject to review on a case-by-case basis, but that a gung-ho aide had misinterpreted this to imply a blanket suspension of such ties. That left reporters asking why it had taken two days for an error of such profound geopolitical consequence to be noticed - and the Pentagon, officially at least, had no good answer. Unofficially, it was reported that Pentagon sources had said the retraction, which followed within hours of CNN broadcasting news of Monday's directive, reportedly...
...Harvard are under-appreciated, but remarkably successful. Club teams from Rugby to Ultimate Frisbee to Tae Kwon Do often demand nearly the same commitment as a varsity sport. Intramural teams, which allow students to battle their classmates in such sports as crew and fencing, often rival the enthusiasm of gung-ho varsity athletes...
...best ineffective, and at worst a recipe for the sort of chaos that has literally reduced Afghanistan to rubble over the past decade. Regional stakeholders such as Saudi Arabia might be more inclined to sign off on a direct U.S. invasion to depose Saddam, but not even the most gung-ho proxy warriors in Washington would dare suggest that the U.S. put tens of thousands of its own troops in harm's way for the foreseeable future in Osama Bin Laden's backyard...