Word: promptness
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...viable Iraq policy. Back in 1991, President Bush held back from destroying Saddam's regime out of concern for regional stability. The collapse of the ethnic-minority regime in Baghdad would almost certainly cause the Shiite majority in the south to ally with Iran, and it would also prompt the Kurds in the north to create their own state, which Turkey would be unlikely to tolerate...
...fray but still popular and respected enough to get tapped by Reno to sort through the Waco mess. He gives Bush intellectual weight for his ticket, and is dignified enough to have begged out of this game early and reentered it gracefully (by winding up his Waco probe in prompt fashion, which is impressive enough in itself). He's got quiet, stately, non-stage-stealing veep written all over him. He could also lock down Missouri, which hasn't backed a loser since...
...course, National Missile Defense is driven primarily by domestic political concerns, and it is quite conceivable that those might prompt this White House, or the next, to go ahead with the system despite the opposition of pretty much everyone else in the world. Then again, the system's poor performance and the growing clamor of scientific criticism may militate against rushing it into production. Either way, Putin's diplomatic offensive to create a consensus among traditionally divergent states may be a portent of things to come: Boris Yeltsin may have occasionally grumbled, but he mostly allowed the U.S. free rein...
...nuclear fleet comprises only about 20 single-warhead missiles, is taking the matter personally, because its own nuclear deterrent might be eliminated by even President Clinton's limited defense. Beijing has warned that if Washington goes ahead it will be forced to expand its own missile fleet, which might prompt India to do the same in response, triggering a similar response from Pakistan...
...care industry. "They deny a substantial amount of necessary care and then, to wear you down, make you play the paperwork game," says Dr. Joy Maxey, an Atlanta pediatrician and president of the Medical Association of Georgia, which has filed a suit against Aetna for violating the state's prompt-pay law. (Aetna denies the charges and says other suits are the political attacks of trial lawyers...