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...Snow, Donaldson and Friedman are being prepped to tell the American public two things: 1. Tax cuts will jump-start the nation's sluggish economy. And 2. Said tax cut is worth it, even if it happens to drag us into a deficit. Both these messages need to sanded, finished and lacquered for public consumption by the middle of January, when President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address - the domestic cornerstone of which is expected to be economic revitalization. And so, as the new keys to the Bush economic message, Snow, Donaldson and Friedman are our People...
...interest groups. He pandered to South Florida by backing a bill to make Elian Gonzalez a permanent U.S. resident, and he quit talking about the environment when pollsters and consultants told him it could hurt him. Each week seemed to bring a new policy pronouncement, another gimmick to jump-start the campaign, which is why even his evolving wardrobe became a metaphor for a man who had no idea what he stood for. "I sometimes made the mistake of putting too much emphasis on tactics," Gore says. "As I look back on the campaign, I remember too many times when...
With its co-sponsoring of today’s National Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Harvard BGLTSA hopes to jump-start a campaign to re-draft what the BGLTSA calls Harvard’s “heterocentric” housing policy, which allows students of opposite genders to room together only with special permission...
...advisers have considered a shake-up of the President's economic team but avoided any moves that might convey the impression that the President's policies had failed. The margin of last week's victory may make Bush less skittish about such perceptions. The White House desperately wants to jump-start the economy in case a conflict with Iraq sends shudders through the global economy. Administration officials say they plan to use their Senate majority early in the new year to make elements of the President's $1.35 trillion tax-cut package permanent, push through an industry-friendly prescription-drug...
...grow across the neural divide or introduce new cells to replace the damaged ones. Often the two strategies feed off each other: the growth of existing neurons stimulates the sprouting of new nerve cells, and those actively developing cells provide older ones with the right cellular environment to jump-start their own growth...