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Bush had promised to focus closely on a few priorities, a dramatic contrast from his predecessor's management style. Which is why his allies are so surprised at his detachment from what he has long declared to be his top legislative. "They delegated it," sniffs Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, a group with similar views to the Fordham Foundation. "I would have thought there at least would have been a bill [drafted by the White House] and Bush would have said if you want XYZ on taxes and Social Security or anything else, give me this...
...negotiations on implementation, the Clinton administration was trying to get the Europeans to agree that the U.S. would actually have to make no real cuts because it has so many forests. So isn't Bush simply speaking more bluntly and honestly than his predecessor...
...Bush's style may seem notable because it differs from the looser, more casual, and, on occasion, frat house approach of his predecessor," says Shad Professor of Business Ethics Joseph L. Badaracco. "But wasn't Bush supposed to be the frat...
...though faculty and administrators stress that increasing the size of the faculty is primarily Knowles' domain, they say Summers can play a role in effecting the broad gains he proposed to the presidential search committee, and that he may have some advantages his predecessor lacked...
...there is a Presidency that has shrunk, it's that of George W. Bush, whose best ideas are overshadowed by the worst of his predecessor. JAMES A. DITTES Westmoreland, Tenn...