Bill Galston, also at Brookings, goes so far as to wonder whether the fuss about it might be a pre-emptive attempt to explain away a defeat.
Rather than a pre-emptive tax cut, make it a sizeable tax credit.
Senior White House aides also called Cheney's remarks as a pre-emptive move to reduce economic expectations for a Bush-Cheney administration.
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" But pride and tension ensure that a pre-emptive strike on the Telmarine court is a fiasco. ("Peter the Impetuous" might be a more fitting moniker.) None of this is in Lewis, but the thwarted assault is the most exciting set piece in the picture and would not look out of place beside Peter Jackson's work in "Lord of the Rings.
If my Dad had ponied up 50 bucks in 1963, and I'd taken a pre-emptive page out of my son's book and bought a few shares of IBM, I'd be on Easy Street today.
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Two weeks ago, in what it says was a pre-emptive move, Dish sued in federal court in New York, seeking a declaratory judgment that it has the right to offer the ad-skipping service.
"This is a pre-emptive move, " says Matt Rosoff, an analyst with research firm Directions on Microsoft.
"It is a pre-emptive move, " said Abheek Barua, an economist at ABM Amro in Mumbai.
Israel has hinted in recent months that it may carry out a pre-emptive strike.
But Netanyahu told CNN he has not said Israel should consider a pre-emptive strike.
And he called the IRA statement a "publicity stunt" and an attempt to make a pre-emptive strike.
Already, taxi drivers have gone on strike in Paris and elsewhere as a pre-emptive move against deregulation.
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And even companies that have never been accused of discrimination are introducing equality training as a pre-emptive move.
The debt standstill suggests Dubai had run out of options for a pre-emptive comprehensive bail-out from the well-resourced region.
Unease in the cabinet is mirrored by opinion polls, which have repeatedly shown large majorities against a pre-emptive strike.
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Mr Blair's decision to highlight the government's investment plans was a pre-emptive strike.
This morning just before the peace talks started at Acas there was a pre-emptive move by Transport for London (TfL).
Some say that would have resulted in a military concentration considered highly vulnerable, should Iraq have mounted a pre-emptive strike.
The announcement was dampened somewhat by a pre-emptive strike that Intel made last week, when it introduced some low-power chips of its own.
Even before it had time to implement its price cutting strategy, its rivals launched a pre-emptive series of price promotions of their own.
Analysts claim that the move is a pre-emptive step taken by the group to defend itself against any unsolicited takeovers in the future.
In what can only be interpreted as a pre-emptive strike against the upcoming consoles from Sony and Microsoft, NVIDIA has announced GeForce Experience.
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The vessels currently provide a nuclear deterrent because the submarines, under the waves in secret locations, would be almost impossible to destroy in a pre-emptive strike.
They describe the cut as a pre-emptive move, given the lack of optimism about any major economic improvement and the increasing likelihood that things will get worse.
He knew that they were planning to cause a stink anyway at Bournemouth and may have felt that he had nothing to lose by launching a pre-emptive strike.
One risk with such a pre-emptive bail-out is that to congressmen the benefits are hypothetical whereas the fiscal and political costs, five weeks before an election, are all too real.
The wider world will examine these results for clues about Israel's future attitude towards peace talks with the Palestinians or the possibility of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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Instead, it pushed Israel into launching a pre-emptive strike.
"More importantly though, it is a pre-emptive strike aimed at its competitors who are soon to launch tariffs of their own once the long-overdue auction of 4G licences is completed, " he added.
Bush topped this off with a pre-emptive concession: agreement to exchange warm ranch- and-home visits, for which Putin was eager, even before any progress was shown in agreement to scrap the old ABM treaty.
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