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Estonians are naturally Atlanticist, but the Obama administration sometimes seems to find it easier to be nice to its foes than its friends.

A senior U. S. Treasury official said the Obama administration intended to put currency issues on the agenda for the IMF meeting here.

"There can be a very good partnership between the Congress and the Obama administration in order to achieve that, " she said.

The Obama administration's health care reforms have been a central part of the US political debate ahead of midterm elections on Tuesday.

Problem is, the way the Obama administration is drifting, the fleet is shaping up to be default jailers in the war on terrorism.

He said the Obama administration will make sure interrogations are consistent with U. S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

The Obama administration has made the decision as if they are the only ones doing human spaceflight.

Again, he said the fundamental problem is demand, and if anything the Obama administration has been too pro-business.

The decision was a partial victory for the Obama administration, which had sued to block several parts of the law.

Chinese diplomats said they did not expect an Obama administration to take a very different approach on trade issues.

He said the Obama administration has not ruled out direct talks with the regime.

The Obama administration seems to understand this.

Holder said the Obama administration is working to ensure that U. S. taxpayers do not pay for the clean up.

A senior Obama administration official said there was only the appearance of division among the leaders.

The Obama administration is ready to follow through on campaign promises to crack down on U. S. companies that "ship jobs overseas. "

Obama administration spokesman John Carney said the president opposes any law that hurts freedom of expression or security.

Clinton said the Obama administration is trying to "move in a direction that will leave a stable Afghanistan. "

Now the talk is of a grander design, with the Obama administration hoping to put development aid on a par with defence and diplomacy.

After years of denial and delay by its predecessor, the Obama administration is signaling that it's ready to take on climate change.

As I said, I support the reform proposals of the Obama administration and its Congressional allies.

As he spoke, members of the incoming Obama administration were at the White House for an unprecedented national security drill.

The Obama administration needs to be at least as determined in its efforts to persuade others to finally speak up.

The official was authorized by the Obama administration to talk about its strategy, with the condition that he would not be named.

To be sure, the Obama administration is taking action to help the economy, but it's trying to mitigate the slump, not end it.

On Tuesday, the Obama administration plans to hold a conference to address the question of what to do with the two companies.

But the UK believes that the US authorities will not run out of money in August and that the Obama administration has "a bit of space" .

And he says, whatever the outcome of the Obama Administration's review, Europe needs some sort of missile defense.

Gates said the Obama administration wants to see a positive response from Iran soon.

Not the Obama administration, which more or less dropped the subject a year and a half ago.

As he wrestled with the decision over whether to leave NASA, the Obama administration made the decision to scrap Constellation and Ares I.

"The [Obama administration] cabinet has my personal mobilephone, and I get regular phone calls, " he said.

The White House says America's employment picture is worse than the Obama administration had anticipated just a few months ago.

Clinton said the Obama administration is committed to increasing the pressure on Syria, including through additional financial sanctions.

Such an initiative by the Obama administration would be much more significant as a jobs-creation measure than anything else it could adopt.

So far, at least, the Obama administration's response to the outpouring of hate on the right has had a deer-in-the-headlights quality.

That, at any rate, was one of the lines being spun by the Obama administration this week.

His view chimes with that of the Obama administration, which is warning against premature fiscal and monetary consolidation.

I wonder why no one in Congress or the Obama administration has thought of that as a potential consequence of their stimulus package.

The failure to seize that moment was one of the Obama administration's gravest errors.

She said the Obama administration is pursuing a diplomatic track on the issue with Iran but within a specific time-frame.

Instead the Obama administration now seems ready to show China there is a cost to its actions. North Korea could be a case in point.

Not until the game looked almost up for Egypt's president did the Obama administration begin to call for an "orderly transition" .

He said the Obama administration would soon announce its own plan.

The Obama administration said it was ready to work together "to further cement this indispensable alliance" .

Strengthening ties and partnerships with the Asia-Pacific region has been a priority for the Obama administration from its outset.

Now Hodge offers his own, quite different, account of the liberal disillusionment occasioned by the Obama administration.

And their goal seems to be to bully the Obama administration into abandoning those rescue efforts.

Earlier this week, the word was that the Obama administration would "pivot" to jobs now that the debt ceiling has been raised.

Wild optimism about economic growth is at the heart of the Obama administration's plans to shrink the federal budget deficit.

At the start of his meeting with Mr. Abbas, Mitchell said the Obama administration will persist with its efforts to keep the talks on track.

The back-and-forth on the matter began Thursday morning and stretched into the afternoon, a senior Obama administration official said.

Fort Lauderdale is one of several airports that have begun flights to Cuba since the Obama administration loosened restrictions this year.

The Obama administration is asking private investors to help buy up to a trillion dollars of bad assets from the nation's banks.

The Obama administration has been trying to get a sense of others' priorities and look for areas of potential agreement.

After Mr Obama's speech, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell accused the Obama administration of trying to "lock up" US energy.

At least that seems to be the approach the Obama administration is taking towards financial reform.

In the Obama Administration, we are also ready to reach beyond ministerial buildings and official meeting halls, as important as those are.

The Obama administration says that while it wants tighter regulations, it has no plans to nationalize banks.

Building a strong relationship with China is a central goal of the Obama Administration and a personal priority of mine.

(Setser now works for the Obama administration and is no longer producing public research on the subject).

The Bush administration apparently understood this and the Obama administration does not appear to have reasons to think differently.

Key members of the Obama Administration are trying to rally support for a controversial $3. 8 trillion budget.

The Obama administration is doing the right thing by trying to ease President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen from office.

Already the Obama administration has shown itself too ready to resort to trade sanctions against China.

Blinken said the Obama administration was eager to have both nations involved in the new system.

Obama administration officials have been saying similar things over the last few days.

Clinton said the Obama administration will name a U. S. special envoy for Sudan in a matter of days.

Ross' advice to the Obama administration: "clean up the union problems, legacy costs and all the bad contracts that have been signed. "

The era is being ushered in by a radical (at least to many) change in space policy by the Obama administration.

They said the Obama administration's emphasis is on an appropriate - rather than speedy - response.

The Obama administration has had a mixed record so far in terms of opening up government data.

The Obama administration plans to spend $80 billion over the next decade to sustain and modernize the U. S. nuclear weapon arsenal.

The strategy released by the Obama administration this week agrees only to conduct a long-range study of that idea, which could take years.

"I think the Obama administration is relieved that it got a public statement from the Chinese going into the Copenhagen meeting, " she said.

Roosevelt succeeded as a policy maker and politician by following four simple rules that ought to guide the Obama administration as well.

Now the Obama administration must regard AIG as more of an operating business, directly protecting the company's profitability and assets.

I think you can't really fault the Obama administration for some of the friction, some of it is congressional short-term re-election stuff.

That has increased pressure on the Obama administration, particularly with the 2012 election just over a year off.

But that action must be decisive. This is particularly true for the Obama administration, on which so much depends.

The US State Department said the Obama administration was still reviewing its policy toward North Korea.

The debate over whether the Obama administration should emphasise job growth or deficit reduction is only the most recent example.

Clinton said the Obama administration deeply regrets the civilian casualties.

Crowley said the Obama administration is assessing the damage as the situation continues.

He said a US government guarantee of GM and Chrysler warranties was not revealed by the Obama administration until March 30.

The Obama administration says the U. S. economy is rebounding from a painful recession and a severe financial crisis.

Partnership with other nations has been a priority for the Obama administration in other regions also, Clinton said.

Tauscher said the Obama administration is analyzing the Iranian president's latest remarks.

But for all that, even people inside the Obama administration agree that it could do better.

The Obama administration put out a bland statement confirming that its "reset" with the Kremlin will go on.

The Obama administration was always clear that it would create some three million jobs more than what would otherwise be the case.

If China is found to be manipulating its currency, it could be a political and economic challenge for the Obama administration.

At least part of the proceeds will go toward a $20 billion fund that BP agreed to last month under pressure from the Obama administration.

George Soros said the Obama administration's plans to tax and curb the activities of big banks are 'premature. '

The great tragedy is that the Obama administration has no comprehensive trade policy to encourage this export potential .

Panetta said he shares these concerns, and the Obama administration has conveyed them to the Pakistani government.

The Obama administration should explain that the United States is interested in forging a more positive relationship with North.

Clinton said the Obama administration is fully committed to implementing the accord.

Cuba President Raul Castro says his government is prepared to meet with the Obama Administration.

The consequences of this crisis for the stability of the eastern Mediterranean and for the Obama administration are quite severe.

Odd, isn't it, that it takes a Pravda commentator to drive home the point that the Obama administration is on the wrong side of history.

It quickly turned into a display of the Obama administration's new consultative approach to international problems.

Since the Obama administration took office, it has tripled the number of U. S. civilians in Afghanistan.

The Obama administration has struck a more conciliatory tone towards business since the Democratic defeat in November's midterm elections.

The Obama administration's actions in the court case exemplify the dilemma the White House faced in developing its energy policy.

It makes sense that the Obama administration prefers to speak in terms of partnerships rather than multipolarity.

The stress tests are a central part of the Obama administration's effort to restore confidence in the U. S. banking system.

The Obama administration is to drop one of the key phrases used by President Bush in what he called his 'war on terror'.

The Obama administration could not get any extra funds out of Congress, even if it wanted to, to back the bail-out.

The announcement by the White House comes as the Obama administration continues to formulate a new strategy for Sudan and the Darfur crisis.

About half was given out in the sunset of the Bush administration and the rest will be disbursed in the dawn of the Obama administration.

Second, the Obama administration appears to be engaging in political payback to silence critics of its financial reform proposals.

The 9th justice, Elena Kagan, did not participate because her former office in the Obama Administration had filed a legal brief in the case.

But the dispute added to the growing sense of irritation between the major European countries and the Obama administration.

The president of Turkey wanted the Obama administration to let a Turkish astronaut sit in on a NASA space flight.

The Obama administration regards India as an emerging world power and a key to turning the tide against violent Islamic extremism.

This time around, the Obama administration's reaction was different. It was, for the most part, sober and professional.

According to the online magazine tmz. com Penn hopes to ask Fidel about Cuba's evolving relationship with the Obama administration.

The Obama administration did not respond at once to yesterday's North Korean statements.

We in the Obama Administration are certainly looking forward to working with your team over the next 18 months.

Of course, the Obama administration realizes that attaining such a goal will be impossible without help from the federal government.

The Obama administration has boosted the number of federal agents along the U. S. border with Mexico.

The United States is waiting for Congressional approval for a proposal put forward by the Obama administration.

In June, the Obama administration appointed lawyer Kenneth Feinberg as the "special master" on executive pay -- also known as the pay czar.

Shada Islam also believes Iran may not offer a clear response to the Obama administration - at least not right now.

Coming out in support of the Tunisian protesters made the Obama administration feel good, but it required no sacrifice.

The Obama administration has begun seeking a country, most likely in Africa, that might be willing to provide shelter to Col.

Yu said the death of bin Laden is a "big achievement for the Obama administration and will help boost his popularity domestically. "

The Obama administration has entered "a period of close strategic partnership" with the Afghan government, he said.

The Obama administration had hoped that this month's town hall meetings would smooth the way for healthcare reform.

Analysts say it was important for the Obama administration to early on set out the broad outlines of a Russia policy.

The Obama administration is seeking to provide other ways for activists to communicate with less risk that they might be caught.

Clinton declined to say whether the Obama administration will formally recognize Mr. Ahmadinejad's re-election, saying U.

The Obama administration must clearly understand: are they prepared to fully open up an era of friction with China?

'Ultimately, it's going to be decided by the Egyptian judiciary and the Egyptian government, ' an Obama administration official said.

The Obama administration maintains that the public will not bear the cost of the cleanup or recovery.

President Medvedev has said he is expecting some specific proposals from the Obama administration.

A black-tie dinner in honor of Singh on Tuesday night will culminate the Obama administration's first hosting of a state visit.

The Czech Republic and Poland would host components of the system, which is now under review by the Obama administration.

The Obama administration is dedicating significant resources to address some of these challenges.

The Obama administration says it welcomes a strong, prosperous China. But do they mean a stronger military power of China?

The Obama administration Wednesday informed the U. S. Congress on plans for a more than $5 billion upgrade of Taiwan's F-16 fighter fleet.

The Obama Administration has pledged to double U. S. exports over the next few years as a way to cut high unemployment.

With the Obama administration pressing China to raise the value of its currency, the cost of Chinese-made socks is likely to rise.

The Obama Administration has made clear that America is in Asia for good and that it might actually increase its presence in the region.

By doing this, the Obama Administration is missing a chance to tell the American people what global warming is doing their wildlife.

The Obama administration's desire to shift focus to East Asia -- and its current inability to do so -- explains a lot.

The possibility of a Huntsman candidacy has already caused both awkwardness and mirth within the Obama administration.

Obama administration officials have repeatedly indicated their intention to reinstate the moratorium since the initial ruling.

After all, the tech industry has been a big beneficiary of the Obama administration's efforts to stabilise the economy.

Even at the height of the New Deal, government spending never exceeded 20% of total output, far less than during the Obama administration.

All of that led to the broad effort from the Obama administration to enlist China to rein in Pyongyang.

The Obama administration may have toned down its Wall Street-bashing, and Congress is rethinking its plan to tax bonuses at up to 90%.

The Obama administration has said it is trying to close Guantanamo Bay.

Only 6% said the Obama administration is most responsible for the budget deficit.

So the Obama administration will eventually have to decide whether that's an issue worth taking to the U. N. Security Council.

A spokesman for the Obama administration said the bankruptcy proceedings are expected to take between 60 and 90 days.

In Washington, the Obama administration is much less interested in reaching out to renegade regimes than it was three years ago.

The Obama administration wants to see more competition for government-paid work.

It has been about six months since the Obama Administration unveiled a new strategy boosting efforts to rebuild Afghan civil society.

That is what is leading the Obama administration to contemplate reserving up to $100bn of that tranche for the "aggregator bank" solution.

The health of ground combat forces is emerging as an element of the Obama administration's review of its Afghanistan strategy.

But Russia has made the issue a central obstacle to the kind of improvement in relations the Obama administration says it wants.

One year ago today, the Obama administration took a gamble and forced Chrysler into a Chapter 11 reorganization.

The crisis in Egypt has also been a crisis for the Obama administration.

The group agreed to work more closely, but put off thornier questions until next year, in an early challenge for the Obama administration.

With the Obama administration in the saddle, prospectsappear favorable for a continuation of this kind of frantic policy activism.

For this reason, the Obama administration recognises that it has an opportunity to bolster its standing in Asia at China's expense.

The Obama administration is still pockmarked with vacancies because Congress refuses to approve routine appointments.

"I'm glad to see the Obama administration show such interest in high-speed projects, " Zhao said.

But he echoed the Obama administration's stated desire to hold investments for as short a period as possible.

The Obama administration is increasingly signalling that the US will not continue to be the world's consumer and importer of last resort.

In the general election under the influence of the political cycle, the Obama administration proposed a bill in Congress difficult.

The only exceptions are Britain and Norway, and I hope the Obama administration will back them up.

But the Obama administration should be quite careful to avoid politicizing the U. S. -Russian relationship.

One program the Obama Administration wants to invest in targets assistance for the long-term unemployed.

Congress held hearings this week. Lawmakers urged the Obama administration to increase efforts to help Mexico crush the drug cartels.

Since the blowout, the Obama administration has reorganized the regulatory apparatus to give it greater independence.

Mr. Panetta said expanding the security alliance with Japan was a critical part of the Obama administration's realignment in Asia.

The Obama administration, struggling to fulfil its own promises of change, should be more understanding of its Japanese counterpart.

After all, you were told by Big Media, the Obama administration and the NAACP that it was true.

The Obama administration said it was seeking to resolve the dispute, but did not have a deal ready in time for the meeting.

The Obama administration has begun drawing up targeted financial sanctions against President Assad and senior members of his inner circle.

The Obama administration announced the stress tests - a process of examining banks' ability to withstand future losses - back in February.

But the Obama administration understands, as did the Bush administration, that maximizing pressure on Beijing would be counterproductive.

The Obama administration is making it easier for Haitians in the US illegally to stay for up to 18 months, Reuters reported.

We understand that global economic conditions make it difficult for the Obama administration to make this determination at the present time.

The pay plans Wall Street will soon unveil are unlikely to dissuade the Obama administration from its own effort to curb compensation.

And I'd argue that susceptibility to the pundit delusion is part of the Obama administration's problem.

During her testimony and a question-and-answer period, Clinton highlighted the Obama administration's goals in various regions of the world.

Against that backdrop of threats, Krepinevich said the Obama administration needs a better overall security strategy.

Here Stern lays out the main challenges and important remedies relating to climate change from the perspective of the Obama administration.

Admittedly, the Obama administration is preoccupied with domestic issues and with other pressing matters abroad.

An eminent scholar is offered a top post in the Obama administration and his first reaction is: They must have made a mistake.

The Ex-Im Bank deal is one of several steps the Obama administration has taken to pursue its goal of doubling U. S. exports over five years.

It wasn't until members of the Obama administration intervened that the department coughed up the digital goods in bulk.

The Obama administration laid out proposals on executive pay , but said it would not seek caps on salaries.

The Obama administration will take action on a dramatic scale to revive credit markets and strengthen banks so they are able to lend.

The Obama administration has pledged only to talk about this.

Arguments continued over the Obama administration's release of classified memos detailing "enhanced interrogation" techniques.

He told Meet the Press that Americans are worried about the long-term costs of the Obama administration's economic proposals.

One option presented to the Obama administration was to bypass Moon landings for now and focus on long-duration missions in deep space.

Medical marijuana advocates accuse the Obama administration of going back on earlier promises not to go after groups abiding by local laws.

The Obama administration appears to be warming to the idea of engagement, partly because South Korea has dropped its objections to doing so.

Moreover, the Obama administration hastened to confirm that Geithner's statement reflected the position of the president.

He has served for nearly two years in one of the most sensitive foreign policy posts in the Obama administration.

If the transfer of the streamlined company proceeds as anticipated, the Obama administration intends to take the business public next year.

The new law faces civil lawsuits. And the Obama administration is considering a court challenge by the U. S. Department of Justice.

But his hand-in-glove cooperation with the Obama administration could also be an impediment in the nomination fight.

Congress needs to expedite approval for an American-Egyptian fund proposed by the Obama administration, Senator John Kerry and others.

We also have to hope the Obama administration will force him and his colleagues to be realistic.

Such steps by the Obama administration are worthwhile to promote the long-term development of democratic institutions.

His expertise could help counter Republican arguments that an Obama administration would be inexperienced on foreign policy.

Obama administration officials understood that overt pressure on China would be counterproductive.

Lawmakers in the U. S. are pressing the Obama administration to take a stronger stand on China's currency.

It's a good question because now the Obama administration has decided to revisit [the exploration] programme.

That development is likely to hinder the Obama administration's effort to release detainees as it attempts to close the prison.

But the Obama administration, like the Bush administration, apparently wants an easier way out.

Secretary Clinton's pledge of support for a two-state solution may put the Obama administration at odds with Israel's new leadership.

But she and other Obama administration officials who briefed reporters shied away from weighing in on climate proposals now before Congress.

Powerful voices in Congress have urged the Obama administration to put more pressure on China to allow the yuan to appreciate.

The Obama administration has signalled that it will require American banks that benefit from its forthcoming rescue package to lend more.

The Obama Administration's new cultural diplomacy program is called smART Power.

Top Obama administration officials say the door remains open for nuclear talks with Iran.

The Obama administration has made it clear that it intends to take a hard line on antitrust enforcement.

Would the Obama administration accept the continued existence of his regime?

The comments showed the political sensitivity in India of one of the Obama administration's foreign policy priorities.

The Obama administration is stepping up enforcement efforts against employers in the United States who knowingly hire illegal workers.

As for the Obama administration, it has so far been silent on the whole affair.

Not to put too fine a point on it, that's one reason I'm so concerned about the Obama administration's bank plan.

Still, a majority supported the Obama administration exerting greater control over the economy during the recession.

The Obama Administration seems hesitant to ask Congress for more money, perhaps because the votes aren't there to provide it.

Obama administration is still pushing to advance an extension of unemployment benefits for laid-off workers now frozen in the Senate.

In Washington on Thursday, Obama administration officials and the head of the U.

Singh is making a four-day official visit to the United States, the first such visit of the Obama administration.

Imposition of a national sales tax is a very live option sitting atop the Obama Administration's policy table.

Now, the Obama administration supports what are known as the Common Core State Standards.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said of the bonuses, "This is an outrage, " and that the Obama administration needs to do more.

The Obama administration is on "reset" with Russia. President Medvedev had just left the U. S. Is there a discordant note here?

Some Obama administration officials say that they are aware of this shift, and have begun to adapt their strategy toward China accordingly.

We look forward to working with the Obama administration on this issue as it reviews the commission's work.

Smart-grid plans have been on the drawing board for years, but the Obama administration has given the system, well, a jolt.

The Obama administration has promised to clamp down on cross-border flows of drugs, guns and migrants.

The White House earlier this year released the Obama administration's first National Security Strategy.

The Obama administration may continue to be bound by the politics of this issue.

Yet the Obama administration is planning to send just one official, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.

The Obama administration faces a deadline Friday on whether to formally name China as a manipulator of its currency.

The Obama administration has moved to restrict access to the U. S. market by Mexican trucks involved in cross-border trade.

Vice-President Joe Biden has said the Obama administration is taking a new look at China policy.

Asia Alone, an intelligent and readable book, is an excellent guide to the dilemmas behind the Obama administration's regional push.

Obama administration officials have called repeatedly for an 'open' process that allows candidates to come forward.