Word: optionally
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Despite the bluster, there is room to maneuver. One option would be for the U.S. to collaborate with Russia on missile defense. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn told Congress last month that the Pentagon is looking at Russian radar systems to help monitor Iranian missile tests. A U.S.-Russian partnership, he added, would signal to members of Iran's government "that they will face a concerted international front should they proceed down that path...
...names of people and nations correctly • Putin is met by without subsequent claim to have been able to look him in the eye and "get a sense of his soul" • Rahm Emanuel's implication that the White House is willing to cave on the public health care option is sort of disputed by while also being sort of confirmed by • Vice President Biden's gaffe - that is, his accidental blurt of truth - that "we misread how bad the economy was" is disputed by, as is subsequent Biden blurt that the U.S. gave Israel carte blanche to attack...
...question that many of their allies are asking more and more, as the drive for health-care reform enters a make-or-break month with new signs of problems ahead. The party's liberal base is increasingly insistent that the bill include a strong, government-run public option, like a program similar to Medicare that would serve as an alternative to private insurers. Republicans are calling it a deal killer, which means any bill with a strong government-financed option would necessarily have to go forward without any significant GOP support. But diluting the bill too much - say, by making...
...newborn when her husband lost his advertising-agency job in February, that means eliminating the family's monthly mortgage payments by selling their Richmond, Va., home and moving into her parents' house near Los Angeles. To make matters worse, their Richmond house has lost so much value, the only option appears to be a short-sell to a bank or foreclosure. (See how Americans are spending...
...passes the Senate to become law - no sure thing, given the 60 votes needed in the upper chamber - it would establish the first national caps on carbon emissions. It would also create what would almost certainly be the world's biggest greenhouse-gas market, since companies would have the option to buy and sell carbon credits and offsets. Every smart, efficient enterprise that can rapidly bring down its emissions will be able to make a mint on the carbon market - and so will the carbon middlemen...