Thus, a vital, but apparently missing component of negotiations over increasing the debt limit, is a pro-growth set of policies that will close the growth deficit.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani of Qatar said a time limit should be set for Mr Annan's mission - which began three months ago.
The inspectors say the al-Samoud 2s have a range that exceeds the 150km (93 mile) limit set by the UN as part of the ceasefire terms imposed at the end of the Gulf war in 1991.
The Bush Administration is willing to think about moving from strategic arms agreements that limit offensive weapons and ban defensive ones to a new set of mix-and-match totals where offensive and defensive capabilities are somehow reckoned together.
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Perhaps not much sign of focus there, but this is a slimmed-down bank half way through its run-off programme, and half way through the time limit it set itself for turnaround.
The US federal government has responded to the Chesapeake Bay challenge by imposing a limit on the amount of pollutants that can flow into the Bay and letting states set up credit-trading programs to promote the most efficient reductions possible.