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These are examples of the time-honored presidential restart--an unofficial third term for re-elected Presidents loping toward the history books. Bush could use a reset button. Not only does he face emboldened Democrats who aren't planning to give him any breaks, but also his own Republicans are grumpy. A former top aide says it is "impossible to overstate the disappointment and disgust" among Bush loyalists about how the President squandered his post-9/11 popularity. So Bush is using a pair of momentous appearances this month--his "new way forward" speech on Iraq and his penultimate State...
...reaction to the young age of soldiers in fighting Vietnam, many states lowered the MLDA and allowed 18-year-olds to drink during the 1970s. By 1984, however, the federal government compelled states to reset the MLDA to 21 in response to the obvious reality of the time: Quite simply, lower MLDAs have failed in practice...
...scientists study all they want how to reset the dials, expand the horizon. But the length won't change the final mystery of the journey, or the knowledge that for all of us, the time may come when we have finished the course, and are ready. Rest in peace, Lizzie...
...some clear trouble spots developing. One is the weak housing market, which is shutting down the easy money from home-equity borrowing. Another is higher rates, which have begun to hit home owners where it really hurts. Some $2 trillion worth of adjustable-rate mortgages is scheduled to reset at a steeper rate by the end of 2008, estimates Moody's Economy.com A recession next year is not out of the question...
...walling them off by establishing borders demarcated by an imposing fence. Hizballah's incursion into Israel two weeks ago, in which eight soldiers were killed in addition to the two taken hostage, on the heels of the kidnapping of an Israeli corporal by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, reset Olmert's agenda. "If the Bush presidency was defined by 9/11, for Olmert it came a little quicker," says Daniel Seaman, director of Israel's government press office. "His political stature is being defined now." And so far, he is gaining. In a poll published at the end of last week...