The Bush administration liked the idea in theory and had some big, if piecemeal, successes.
What Medicare Advantage is, is basically the previous administration had this idea, instead of traditional Medicare, let's contract out to insurance companies to manage the Medicare program.
European Commission officials have been trying to scare the Bush administration off the idea of taking the EU moratorium to the WTO, saying that it might backfire and trigger a boycott of American foods by European consumers.
Complicating matters, the Obama administration openly opposes the idea of a repatriation holiday.
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The issue could set up a showdown between the council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose administration has opposed the idea as unnecessary.
The one sensible idea the Administration has had was put on the table several months ago--the creation of clearinghouses or exchanges for credit-default swaps.
The Clinton administration long resisted the idea of arming Iraqi dissidents or fostering insurrection, insisting that the best hope for change lay in a coup from within.
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Is there some concern in the administration that somehow this idea that you're not doing everything possible to keep the American people safe is something that's taking hold in the population?
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On a related issue, Mr. Bush did say he favored a long-term enlargement of both the Army and the Marine Corps, an idea his administration had opposed under former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Only a week after floating the idea of dramatically expanding tax-sheltered savings accounts, the administration has gone silent on the idea.
The administration briefly flirted with the idea of a military commission, perhaps in Charleston, S.C. or at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
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The Administration is toying with the idea of permitting people to have up to 4 percentage points of that payroll tax go into personal accounts.
And for Merck, there is also a point of pride: whether its effort to get a combination of laropiprant and niacin through the Food and Drug Administration was ever a good idea, or was too clever by half.
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This idea underlies the Obama administration's proposal for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
The Obama administration has long toyed with the idea of trying to draw Syria's leader "in from the cold".
Over the weekend, top Bush Administration officials expressed enthusiasm for this idea.
The idea that the Bush Administration would agree to extend additional credit to the Soviet Union is made still more preposterous by the USSR's present economic circumstances.
So the Reagan administration came up with a great idea.
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The original idea behind the Bush administration's changes to the H-2A program--which went through a lengthy rulemaking process--was to cut out the red tape in the visa process and make the wage structure more efficient.
If its dreams are serious, the Administration should get behind a crackling good idea proposed by entrepreneur Paul Graham.
It seems like an about face from the Bush administration, which has long resisted the idea of engaging the Iranians on the issue.
Mr Jansa's third big idea is reform of public administration.
Moreover, even if the organizers of Rolling Jubilee were willing to bet the tax status of their own organization on the prospect of kinder, gentler tax administration, it is not a good idea to experiment with unsophisticated middle class debtors.
The Bush administration defended the letter and said the idea for it originated at the IRS. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said the agency was concerned its phone lines would be overwhelmed if rebate checks began showing up without explanation.
"The idea that this department and this administration and the president were somehow detached from Katrina is simply not correct, " Chertoff said.
What might also have qualified Ms. Jewell for the nomination is her open support for an idea of great interest to this administration.
However, as the war neared its climax, the Reagan administration in Washington was trying to promote the idea of a joint US- Brazilian peacekeeping force to take over the Falklands.
What did they talk about, if we have any idea, and the reaction of this administration?
Nothing better illustrates the Bush administration's air of helplessness than this latest idea of involving Syria and Iran in efforts to bring some stability to Iraq.
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