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...Americans." Given the high stakes, it was surprising that Bush responded not with a specific rebuttal but mostly with complaints about Gore's "phony numbers" and "fuzzy math." Bush's advisers say this was partly a result of who Bush is - "It's not his manner" to rebut statistics with statistics, says Rove - and partly because his debate strategy was to avoid getting dragged into the policy weeds with Gore and instead stay sunny and above the fray. But Bill Bradley tried a version of that during the primaries, not refuting Gore when he hammered Bradley's health-care plan...
...would Jeb say such a thing? To lower expectations, for one thing. To avoid blame, for another. If Bush can gain a slight lead in the next few weeks, it's seen as a significant gain. And Jeb could be trying to rebut those anonymous Republicans claiming that he and his brother should have done things differently...
...import medicines previously exported by U.S. drug companies - in other words, to permit American consumers to buy the drugs at the lower prices the U.S. corporations often charge in foreign markets. Not surprising, then, that the industry is mounting a full-court press, and doing its best to rebut these arguments on its web site...
...money in the stock market--that were debatable as policy but made Bush seem more serious and moderate than he had before. Instead of offering his own vision of the future, Gore spent April and May attacking Bush's plans, even canceling a week's vacation so he could rebut Bush's Social Security idea. That strategy worked well against Bill Bradley in the primaries, but six months before the general election--when Gore should have been telling people what he stood for--it made him look mean, negative and short of ideas. His campaign seemed wholly reactive, skirmishing...
...When Judge Jackson last week denied Microsoft a chance to call new witnesses to rebut the government's breakup plan, he wasn't wrong - trial judges have a lot of discretion on how they run their cases, and he had justification for saying that Microsoft had had their chance," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "But he may have left himself vulnerable to the appeals court, which is likely to be more sympathetic to Microsoft and any argument they made that Jackson had denied them due process." This way, Jackson's a little better covered. If the appeals court...