Word: straitjacketing
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...straitjacket of excessive regulation...
...Bush administration, the Saudi proposal represents an opportunity to break out of a diplomatic straitjacket. Over the past three months, Washington's focus has been almost exclusively on pressuring Yasser Arafat to act against terrorism. But the Bush team's efforts - like Israel PM Ariel Sharon's - have failed to stop a dramatic escalation of violence of late. And that's causing consternation among the Arab allies Washington wants to recruit for a war to topple Saddam Hussein. Other parties mediating the conflict, including Israeli peacemakers such as foreign minister Shimon Peres, have long emphasized that progress depends on linking...
George Bush told reporters last week that a "fiscal straitjacket" is good for government. Maybe he should ask Mike Easley how it feels. Easley became Governor of North Carolina in January, dreaming of smaller class sizes and a prescription-drug benefit for seniors. These weren't wild fantasies; his predecessor, fellow Democrat Jim Hunt, doled out plums for eight years while the economy boomed--a pre-kindergarten program for low-income kids, big pay raises for teachers, $1.5 billion in tax cuts...
...Easley for being too tentative during the crisis, but the new Governor has clung to his priorities. He's still working to shrink class sizes. "We simply cannot, and will not, let a budget shortfall become an education shortfall," said Easley. He sounds good, for a guy in a straitjacket...
...other hand, however enthused congressional Republicans say they are about their fiscal straitjacket - "the budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be," says House Budget Committee chairman Jim Nussle - congressmen are congressmen, and swallowing bitter political pills in the name of fiscal discipline has never been either party?s strong suit...