Word: sounders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There's certainly room for straight talk and firmness in U.S. diplomacy. Bush's clarity could inspire sounder policy. To keep the tough talk constructive, though, Bush will need perfect pitch. Some may dismiss his verbal "realism" as the bluster of a green President who wants to puff up his toughness and resolve. Others may see the candor as a sign of overt hostility?and simply stop listening. Bashing Russia fuels anti-American forces in Russian society. Isolating North Korea doesn't reduce its threatening missiles. The Aegis could hurt rather than help Taiwan's security. How, asks Brookings Institution...
...Saving and patience. Gore's plan is to stay the course Clinton set out but never quite got to embark upon. He wants to use the surplus the fund is currently running to pay down the national debt over the next decade or so, putting the economy on sounder footing and freeing up more money (which now goes to debt servicing) to keep the fund going a while longer. It's a stall tactic, but one with tangible overall benefits in the meantime...
...Standard is probably a sounder candidate for an IPO than some of the dotcoms it covers, even though editorial Web ventures have a tendency to slump on Wall Street in the long run. Battelle, a Wired veteran who saw that magazine's stock-offer bid crash and burn, is cautious. "I don't want to go public till I'm sure I have a company that will be here in 10 years," he says. That's a lifetime in Internet time. Still, a magazine that took only 22 months to become an institution has a good head start...