Word: neutral
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...need for some cuts. "Clinton is not going to sign anything that agrees to the CBO numbers because he would be bound to them," Carney notes. "What he may do is to decide to take somebody else's numbers, either a combination of CBO and OMB numbers or some neutral economic assumptions done by third party economists. But if Clinton does this, then he will be faced with the difficult task of rejecting a Republican budget, filled with deep cuts in a number of programs Medicare and education, after he's agreed to balance the budget in seven years...
Much of the credit for last week's victory belongs to the defense, both in the neutral zone and behind the blue line. Several of Harvard's goals came off turnovers created by the tough Crimson pressure defense...
...leaders of the religious right will see this as a major resource," he notes, "and seek to strengthen ties with it. There is a danger it might be hijacked." (In fact, Promise Keepers has no official position on abortion, and its disapproval of homosexuality is stated in considerably more neutral terms than McCartney's own brutal remarks in the past.) Martin also shares with some of the movement's feminist critics an unease about Promise Keepers' position on the man's authority within the family.(a speaker once wrote that men should "treat the lady gently and lovingly--but lead...
...would like to suggest that America is now in a period of dramatic transition, for there is overwhelming evidence that our present era is exhausted. This era has been characterized by the partially successful attempt at a liberal, amoral society where government strives to be neutral to specific virtues; in which pop psychology has advocated I'm Okay, You're Okay with its emphasis on tolerance and individual expression instead of virtue and responsibility...
Will and Sandel, perhaps America's foremost conservative and liberal philosophers, stand hand-in-hand in the belief that America must head into a time of a new republicanism, in which the government will abandon its value-neutral pretenses and actively seek to mold citizens to embody certain virtues so that they will be better equipped to share in self-government. Their contention is that confining politics solely to the economic distribution debate between libertarians and egalitarians is no longer appropriate. The new "statescraft as soulcraft" (to use Will's term) may well be inevitable...