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...million in licensing fees either concluded or in final negotiations. But success is not a given: the Butt-Uglies' key target group is boys aged five to nine, those particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of playground peer pressure that can destroy fads in the space of a morning recess. Even the company forecasts a window of only 18 months to two years in which the TV show must make its mark in order to milk the Butt-Ugly name. That's the reality thing...
...fact that senators and congressmen were all back in their home states to start their two-week Easter recess isn't changing the fact that Bush's budget will spark a battle royal that will put his tax cut in a fresh round of danger. In fact, it's probably going to make it worse...
...which Cheney replied, "That is my intention." And suddenly the Bush budget, which Trent Lott wants passed before senators head home for Easter recess at week's end, looked as if it was headed into a dramatic string of party-line, 51-50 votes that would at the very least make for a big tax cut and a heck of a story...
...There could be some Thursday-night connection between what John McCain wanted - a victory for campaign finance reform - and what Trent Lott wanted, which was a few Republican moderates to help send his president off on Easter recess with a brand-new budget. In any case, a foot-dragging Tom Daschle got the budget disruption he wanted by spilling McCain-Feingold over into next week, but whatever magic the Republicans worked to get their tally to 50 will go down as Lott's great coup...
...nothing to do with McCain-Feingold - it's about the budget. Lott desperately wants to get all the budget resolution through the Senate next week, and hand President Bush a huge legislative victory going into Easter recess. Daschle wants to stop...