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The countdown to the crisis actually began a year ago, when the Bush administration lopped off the dollop of bridging funds it had promised.

But like the Bush administration, she said President Obama will take no options, implicitly including military ones, off the table.

The Bush administration has so far followed a wise course, forging the grandstanding taking place in Europe and on the campaign trail.

Even the Bush administration, trying to trump yet another Democratic election card, is now proposing more oversight for financial markets.

But it does not seem to be under serious consideration yet in the Bush administration or Congress.

The Bush administration says it has no plans to end economic restrictions against Cuba without changes like free elections.

He is known for not being a friend to the white House. During the last 8 years he had been a severe critic of the Bush administration.

USDA Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner said the Bush administration would accept the definition of Customs user fees as a "negative outlay. "

As he remarks, this makes the Bush administration's negative attitude towards family planning even more difficult to understand.

Obama will face criticism that his approach to Sudan is not markedly different from that of the Bush administration.

Hadley says the Bush Administration will take that explanation to its own analysts to see if it conforms with what they think.

She says that now with only two months left in the Bush administration the matter will be left to President-elect Obama.

Using a form of the word "manipulation" has legal implications, and the Bush administration steered clear of the term.

That timetable is in keeping with an agreement reached between the United States and Iraq in the last weeks of the Bush administration.

He said he cannot confirm any wiretaps have occurred, but urged the Bush administration not to follow that path.

The Bush administration has been trying to make Americans believe that there were legitimate reasons for going to war in Iraq.

Rice said the Bush administration will ask Congress for $400 million in economic support for Palestinians for the next fiscal year.

The Bush administration has no objection to a trip to China by former president Bill Clinton who was briefed by senior officials.

He said the Bush administration was looking for the widest possible expansion of NATO and encouraged them to sprint to the finishing line.

and if he investigates leaders of the Bush administration he would look as if he were conducting a witch-hunt against his political rivals.

Many experts, including Aaron, said the latest conflict was in part due to the Bush administration's Middle East policy.

Senator Obama fought back with criticisms of the Bush administration's policies, which he said Senator McCain has largely supported.

Senator McCain said he is confident Congress and the Bush administration can agree on a financial bailout plan within the next few days.

This was all the more remarkable since the Bush administration had explicitly instructed agencies to do the opposite.

Mr Ban was asked what he thought of such undiplomatic sideswipes at the Bush administration.

In so doing, he has set the United States on a path toward reversing eight years of the Bush administration's conservative policies.

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

The Bush administration's bail-out plan, even if it gets through Congress, may not be the end of the finance industry's problems.

The Bush administration has been walking a diplomatic tightrope throughout the Turkish cross-border offensive, which began a week ago.

Under changes instituted by the Bush administration, Iranian banks are themselves no longer able to access dollar financing.

Even as it condemned the leak, the White House also noted that the bulk of the material released was from the Bush administration.

He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax cut.

It's one of the words most used to describe the Bush administration's foreign and economic policies around the world.

So get used to the idea that the OS you've been using since early in the Bush administration is going to go away.

Most Republican lawmakers oppose investigating the Bush administration, saying such a probe could compromise counter-terrorism efforts.

To replace the Shuttle, the Bush Administration said the Constellation program would lead to a manned Mars landing.

The White House has posted online a 50-page defense called "100 Things Americans May Not Know About the Bush Administration Record. "

For eight years the Bush administration has been trying to resolve that issue - but with little success.

The Bush administration once said that the failure to discover these illegal weapons does not mean that they do not exist.

The Bush administration says it has been consistently engaged in trying to find a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.

Obama has been a fierce critic of the Bush administration's handling of foreign affairs, especially the Iraq war.

The Iraq war was a strategic decision by the Bush administration to remove a hostile government and a potential threat.

The Bush administration is asking Congress to let the U. S. government buy $700 billion in bad debt.

In now deciding where to go on this issue, the Bush administration has a choice of two divergent paths.

Biofuels like ethanol grew in popularity during the Bush administration as a cure for the U. S. 's oil addiction.

One aspect of the Democrats' strategy is to stress that the recession was the Bush administration's fault, not theirs.

The bush administration is going to embark upon a colossal risky military operation against Saddam.

But she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the negotiating process championed by the Bush administration is being reviewed .

The courts also overruled the Bush administration's attempt to block the acquisition of PeopleSoft by a rival database firm, Oracle.

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.

Torture techniques used on suspected terrorists by the Bush administration may have failed to get to the truth, researchers say.

When the United States Congress, the Bush administration against Iraq vote, Obama voted against one of the few members.

This was seen as an attempt by the presumptive Republican presidential candidate to distance himself from the Bush administration.

But before he ever said that, the Bush administration also committed to withdrawing all troops by the end of this year.

More than 60 percent of people said the Bush Administration underestimated the number of troops needed in Iraq .

He repeated his desire to break with the policies of the Bush administration.

The Bush administration also wants to limit the number of relatives of legal immigrants granted entry into the United States.

There is only so long they will be able to blame the recession on the Bush administration.

I blame the [Bush] administration and I also blame the Congress for just laying low [not acting to end the war] and not paying attention.

The Bush administration had taken preliminary steps to launch the office, such as acquiring office space and beginning to hire staff.

When we re-engaged - because, again, the Bush administration reversed course on this - then we have at least made some progress. . .

59 year-old Clinton criticized the Bush administration, saying after six years of his presidency it is time to renew the promise of America.

Or it may deal with its problems and become what the Bush administration calls a "responsible stakeholder" in world politics.

The Bush administration appeared to be caught off guard.

Tensions between Mohamed ElBaradei and the Bush administration pre-date the war in Iraq, when he questioned U. S. intelligence.

The Bush administration has shied from intervention, preferring to let market forces operate without government intrusion.

The Bush administration will not release crude oil from the nation's emergency stockpile to help ease record high gasoline prices, U. S.

The Bush administration made direct talks between the US and Iran conditional on Iranian suspension of its uranium enrichment programme.

The proof of this leverage would be that the Bush administration would "deliver" on the Middle East peace process.

The verdict also reinforces the general impression that the Bush administration is a fading force.

But he was a critic of the Bush administration on many other issues, including the war in Iraq.

Mr McCain, for all his efforts at bipartisan grandstanding , will find it hard to escape guilt by association with the Bush administration .

Mr Obama is adjusting the Bush administration's policies here and there and seeks to put them on a sounder legal footing.

In Annapolis, the president once again contrasted his views on the treatment of terror suspects with those of the Bush administration.

When he was a UN deputy secretary general, he accused the Bush administration of using the UN to serve its own interests.

Two years earlier, Beijing also cut off military ties for five months in response to another arms sale by the Bush administration.

Mr Obama has conceded, in effect, that the Bush administration was right about this.

The Bush administration has sent the U. S. State Department's third ranking official, Undersecretary of State William Burns, to these talks.

He had a reputation for pragmatic bipartisanship and principled opposition to the excesses of the Bush administration.

The Bush administration was unable to deliver its promised democratic remake of the Muslim MiddleEast.

Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration.

The Bush administration says Iraq is not in a civil war, but Vice President Dick Cheney said terrorists are desperate to foster one.

The Bush administration calls its watch list one of the most effective tools in its "war against terrorism. "

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

The Bush administration never resolved this question in its own policies, and the consequence was incoherence and ineffectiveness .

He said U. S. forces were under undue pressure in Iraq because of poor planning and allocation of resources by the Bush administration.

The Bush administration made much of the idea of welcoming China as a "responsible stakeholder" in the international system.

The Bush administration offered $1. 4 billion over three years, much of it for helicopters, communications gear and training.

The Bush administration has always insisted that Iraq is the front-line in that war.

The Bush administration is set to put a high-profile nuclear deal with Russia on hold, according to US diplomats.

The Bush Administration suggested that, somehow, Constellation could get off the ground within NASA's existing inflation-adjusted budget.

As Mike Green explained, this is a temptation to which previous Administrations, including the Bush administration, fell prey.

The project's political origins can be found in the last months of the Bush administration.

"Under the Bush administration there were three trials in military courts, " he said.

True to its word, the Bush administration nagged, scolded, bribed and bullied its allies towards greater democracy.

The Bush administration and congressional lawmakers appear to be nearing an agreement on legislation to boost the slumping U. S. economy.

Because the Bush administration up to that point had specifically denounced nation building.

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

Obama said McCain and the Bush administration have failed to present a strategy on how fighting in Iraq makes the American people safer.

She added that if the North wanted to end its isolation it also had to meet denuclearisation pledges made during the Bush administration.

The bill would also have compelled the Bush administration to take steps to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.

Mr Driehaus's suggestion that some of the blame for America's economic ills lies with the Bush administration does not go down well, either.

There was good reason why under the Bush administration Egypt was a favoured destination for "rendition" of terrorist suspects.

U. S. president Obama has decided to abandon the Bush administration's missile defense plans in Eastern Europe.

After all, he and his Republican colleagues showed no comparable interest in paying for the Bush administration's huge unfunded initiatives.

It is not so much that Mr McCain is branded with the record of the Bush administration.

The Bush administration was understood to have resisted the deal because 3 Com was a supplier to the defence department.

The Bush administration seemed not to care, which stoked the Russians' feeling that they were being ignored.

The Bush administration is attempting to dampen expectations for immediate government action to save America's troubled car manufacturers.

But the Bush administration doesn't seem to have any good ideas about where to go next with this isolation.

The Bush administration has pathetically used China's exemption from the Kyoto protocol as an excuse not to act.

The Bush administration has criticized Democratic proposals for immediate aid, raising the specter of a veto.

But he also voted against an amendment that would have required the Bush administration to seek further authorization before invading Iraq.

Meanwhile, the Bush administration's efforts to help homeowners at risk of losing their homes is paying off.

The Bush administration wants authority to spend up to $700 billion, or about the cost of the Iraq war, to buy up troubled loans.

John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for the presidency, denounces the "criminal conduct" of the Bush administration.

Now that the Bush administration has rediscovered its German partner, it is hard not to detect a chill over the Rhine.

The Bush administration says Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being placed in a government conservatorship with new executive leadership.

The Bush administration says what is taking place in Darfur is genocide.

The Bush administration is sticking to its position that investing in new technologies, not controlling emissions, is the way to go.

This article concludes is that the Bush administration's Korea policy, the United States Asia-Pacific strategy is an integral part of.

Before joining the Bush administration, Mollen worked as a computer systems analyst for the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta.

How would you respond to the request of the Bush Administration for China to stop its manipulation of the RMB rate?

Gerstein, who heads his own New York consulting firm, was highly critical of the Bush administration's policies.

Predictably , the Bush administration triumphantly paraded Greenspan's main message around Washington and buried the qualifications .

The Bush Administration demonstrated its recognition of the U. S. role when it approved its 2001 arms package.

They hoped that in politics receives the Bush Administration which weakens at the summit to be able easier to accept their opinion.

In any case, the Obama administration has so far not changed the Bush administration's policies toward Bolivia.

And let's not forget that markets went into free fall when the Bush administration let Lehman Brothers go into liquidation.

At the end of the Bush administration, Albright foresaw a great challenge in restoring the good name of democracy.

S. recession. The Bush administration has also renewed calls for a swift economic-stimulus package to spur growth.

Though he was a scourge of the Bush administration, he has been critical, if not hostile, to the Obama White House.

The Bush administration has not made any substantial details of the latest negotiations public.

The deal languished as the Bush administration didn't feel confident it could win ratification for it in the Senate.

The Bush administration previously insisted that the North Korean declaration contain detailed admissions.

The despair is histrionic and purposefully distorted; the stasis proved disastrous during the Bush Administration.

The Bush Administration considers the United Arab Emirates an ally in the war on terror.

Mr McCain's policies on Iran, Russia and China are more hawkish even than those of the Bush administration.

The Democrat renewed his charge that the Bush Administration failed to build an international alliance.

The Bush administration''s comments come amid further signs that the number of Americans looking for work is growing.

The Bush administration spurned direct contacts with Iran without a prior commitment by Tehran to halt enrichment.

The Bush Administration moved swiftly to avert any sense of crisis after the market closed.

So the lawmakers are challenging the Bush administration to take steps to save the industry if congressional efforts falter.

The move comes as the Bush administration debates what arms to sell Taiwan given the improvement in relations between Taipei and Beijing.

Obama said McCain's support of the Bush administration's troops surge in Iraq shows the Arizona senator will not bring change.

In a reversal from the Bush administration, President Obama on Monday drastically cut federal funding for fuel-cell vehicles.

One of the problems with the Bush administration was we didn't show up enough at conferences at a high enough level.

Since the terror attacks of September 2001, the Bush administration has tried hard to cut off funding for terrorists.

Mr. Wen was given treatment that the Bush administration has so far accorded to no other No. 2 official from abroad.

The Bush administration is reviewing the U. S. strategy in Afghanistan, and the Obama administration is expected to do the same.

The Bush administration also wants to know the scale of the programme to enrich uranium to which North Korea admitted in 2002.

The Bush administration's answer to Myanmar's bad behaviour was to tighten economic sanctions.

At issue: should broad tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration continue for all income levels, or only for the middle class?

The new enforcement policy would reverse the Bush administration's approach, which strongly favored defendants against antitrust claims.

The post has been vacant since Richard Williamson stepped down as Sudan trouble-shooter at the end of the Bush administration.

The case was brought by the Bush administration, but President Barack Obama has pledged to take an even tougher line on trade with China.

So the Bush administration appointed a former advertising executive to work on polishing America's "brand" (without success).

The Bush administration first proposed to deploy 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar facility in the Czech Republic.

The Bush administration seems bent on satisfying the small but vocal group of Americans who oppose stem cell research under any conditions.

The Bush administration's education law, the No Child Left Behind Act of Two Thousand One, established Reading First.

The Bush administration was out of gas, and the public was starved for leadership.

He knew we would bring more Haitians to the United States than the Bush administration had, and he didn't want his people to drown.

Obama has to restore the US reputation in the world after eight years of the Bush administration.

Separately, David Kilcullen, an adviser to the Bush administration, has said Pakistan might face "internal collapse" within six months.

McCain slammed Obama's tax plan and promised that he too would take the country in a different direction from the Bush administration.

And he has suggested a willingness to reign in some of the executive powers that were expanded by the Bush administration.

"To look at prosecuting some in the Bush administration sends chills through the intelligence community, " said Senator Ensign.

Obama continued his relentless campaign to tie Senator McCain to the economic policies of the Bush administration.

When these demands are tallied, I would venture to guess that they exceed the commitments made by the Bush Administration.

To those enthralled with the president, the prize signals America's return to global leadership after the Bush administration.

Save them from a fat fate by exercising with them, advises Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California during the Bush administration.

In 2008, Condoleezza Rice gave a full-throated, unapologetic defense of the Bush administration's record in one of the afternoon keynotes.

Oh, and the Bush administration actively blocked state governments when they tried to protect families against predatory lending.

But environmental groups told the Bush administration that "ammonia emissions from poultry operations pose great risk to public health. "

The Bush administration is shuffling its homeland security operation to make available more armed agents for airliner protection.

The non-binding Senate resolution adopted last month is opposed by the Bush administration and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

And those two different approaches are basically tagging back and forth inside the Bush administration.

The Bush administration hopes to nominate a four-star military officer to lead the command by the end of the fiscal year, September 30.

The American Civil Liberties Union detects "abuse of power" by the Bush administration.

Some congressmen urged the Bush administration to set a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq.

India defense security relations on China's peripheral security during the Bush administration period.

The Bush administration says it will temporarily suspend oil deliveries to this Strategic Petroleum Reserve starting in July.

The Bush administration has rejected any talks with Hamas, describing it as a terrorist group.

They note that drilling on federal lands has increased steadily during the Bush administration, even as gas prices have risen.

The Bush administration wanted NATO to take the first steps towards letting Ukraine and Georgia into the alliance; Europeans said no.

Q: India is the largest democracy in the world. The Bush administration expressed that India and the United States are natural allies.

For example, he was one of the leading critics of the Bush administration on torture.

In return for exempting India from these restrictions, the Bush administration hopes India will be a bulwark against China.

The Obama administration clumsily ditched a scheme promised by the Bush administration but says the new programme will be bigger and better.

That (along with the cack-handed approach of the Bush administration) has eroded once-fervent Atlanticist sentiments.

Two months ago, the Bush administration hosted Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi in Washington for the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade.

And the Bush administration claims this is the best economy of our lifetime and that job losses are a myth.

These policies are, in turn, aggravating hostilities and allowing the Bush administration to justify its belligerence.

Georgia lacked any similar protections (and the Bush administration blocked the state's efforts to restrict subprime lending directly).

Of course, the Bush administration wants to shift the blame, but neither China, nor anyone else, should be fooled.

Mrs Clinton's emphasis on getting a US pavilion contrasted strongly with the attitude of the Bush administration.

They point out that drilling on federally owned lands has increased steadily during the Bush administration.

The Bush administration launched a Global Internet Freedom Task Force but never adopted a coherent strategy to protect human rights online.

That was the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq, and it is the purported approach of the Obama administration in Afghanistan.

China suspended the military sessions in protest over weapon sales to Taiwan approved by the Bush administration.

The Bush administration in its dying days must still win congressional approval for the pact.

As Assistant Secretary for Europe in the Bush administration, Fried was a key figure in executing U.

How can the Bush administration impose economic sanctions on a government that owns hundreds of billions of dollars of U. S. debt?

The Bush Administration supports charter schools as a choice for parents whose local schools are bad.

But the Bush administration repeatedly has said there should be corresponding cuts in other farm programs to offset the cost.

The Bush administration, which has forged close ties with the government of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, had a measured response.

They're not part of the Clinton administration-mediated Taba agreements or the Bush administration-brokered "road map" for peace.

Hill was the Bush administration's lead negotiator with North Korea.

Some analysts predict that Ortega will eventually be forced to seek a truce or a more cordial entente with the Bush administration.

That has aroused opposition to human embryonic stem cell research, and it led the Bush administration to restrict federal funding for it.

On the positive side, the Bush administration reports a rise in civil actions for monetary damages, most brought by Chinese rights-holders.

The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances.

Ms. Schwab was hindered by the Bush administration's falling poll ratings and the Democrats' control of Congress, analysts say.

The Bush administration says continuing violence will not delay Iraqi elections later this month.

No one in the Bush administration is commenting publicly on the specifics of the proposals.

The Bush administration has already imposed limits on Chinese - made brassieres, dressing gowns and knitted fabrics.

The Bush administration is expected to emphasize the issue of counter-terrorism at the upcoming APEC meeting.

of the Bush administration's military surge strategy in Iraq and says a similar approach is required in Afghanistan.

The determination of Congressional Democrats to claim scalps from the Bush administration remains visceral.

Businesses are lobbying the Bush administration to roll back rules that let employees take time off for family needs and medical problems.

U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice departs for the Middle East Friday to push the Bush administration's new policy for Iraq.

"For the Bush administration, the strategy was really about facilitating the shift of jobs offshore, " Lee said.

American liberals complained bitterly about the Bush administration's politicisation of intelligence.

The farther that Sen. John McCain can distance himself from the Bush Administration, the greater his likelihood of election in November.

Analysts view this as a significant shift in policy by the Bush Administration.

The agreement reached last week came after mounting pressure from the big banks and the Bush administration to resolve the uncertainty.

In November the Bush administration struck a landmark deal with the Iraqi government which mandates the withdrawal of US forces by 2011.

But in general, Schwab says the Bush Administration took on all of the enforcement cases it believed were backed by rock-solid evidence.

Russia disliked NATO's eastward expansion and the Bush administration's plans for new missile defences in Europe.

Iraq was the Bush administration's single worst error of judgment.

Friends and enemies have mistaken the short-term failure of the Bush administration for deeper weakness.

The Bush administration wanted even tougher sanctions though Russia and China have to date resisted the idea.

The Bush administration engaged in a massive programme of telephone tapping before the Supreme Court slapped it down .

"They've gone quiet on me, " Peterson said, referring to the Bush administration.

The Bush administration dismisses the allegations, saying the former spokesman is misinformed.

CORRESPONDENT The Bush administration inherited a weakening economy, but acknowledged it is disappointed in the jobless recovery.

Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, said that the "trial provided a troubling picture of the inner workings of the Bush administration. "

The Bush administration set this country back decades by wasting taxpayer money on wars and bailouts for the wealthy.

In this subtle way, the unpopularity of the Bush administration undercut Mr McCain's advantage in seniority.

Many of the conservative groups aligned with the Bush administration on social issues promote the goal of sexual abstinence until marriage.

The Bush administration removed Pyongyang in 2008, easing some economic sanctions, in a bid to underpin disarmament talks.

The report poured cold water on the Bush administration's goal of reducing US dependence on foreign oil, rather than on oil in general.

Asked whether he planned to stay in the Bush administration, Powell replied: "Oh, absolutely. "

President Vladimir Putin hoped the Bush administration would abandon NATO expansion and seek a true alliance with Russia.

In Europe, the US's soft power has seriously suffered from the unrestrained and inefficient use of hard power by the Bush administration.

The Bush administration is rushing to sign deals before its "fast-track" negotiating authority from Congress runs out next July.

All U. S. forces are scheduled for withdrawal by the end of 2011 under an agreement Iraq reached with the Bush administration.

Europeans had already become disgruntled with the United States when the Bush administration went to war in Iraq.

In Iran, despite the great stakes, there is not much to lose because the Bush administration's unyielding line had failed in any case.

But many analysts say they are not sure U. S. negotiators can deliver on a trade deal in the final months of the Bush administration.