Word: nationalizing
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Last month, Barack Obama took his first presidential whirl around the Far East, all the while peddling the messages of our nation. The common refrain? “We welcome China’s effort to play a greater role on the world stage—a role in which its growing economy is joined by growing responsibility...
...very helpful for me to call a number of leaders in the field across the nation,” Faust said of the recent search for a Law School dean to replace former Dean Elena Kagan. “I think with the Business School it should be across the world...
...Meanwhile, as the President gathers lawmakers, chief executives and union heads on Thursday at the White House for a jobs summit, business groups are pushing for an array of tax cuts. The National Federation of Independent Business would like to see a payroll tax holiday. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is asking for a reduction of the capital-gains tax, renewal of popular research and development and other soon-to-expire business tax breaks and a permanent elimination of the estate tax, among a long wish list of tax provisions. The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest umbrella union, would...
...grieving spouse - a young investment banker whose wife had died in the World Trade Center - who enlisted immediately after the attacks ... and then gave his life, heroically, defending a school for girls in Kandahar. Reagan would have inspired tears, outrage, passion, a rush to recruiting centers across the nation...
...closing, at lunch. Then he diluted the power of the speech by detouring into a recitation of his concerns about the recession, even linking them to the time limit he has placed on the war: "That is why our troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended - because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own." (See a graphic of the troop count and war funding in Afghanistan...