But it also gave Republicans the ability to put several centrist Democratic senators on the spot, forcing those Democrats to vote for a politically contentious plan that raises taxes on certain Americans.
One thing is certain: Americans overwhelmingly want both sides to get along, but don't have much confidence that they will.
But no matter what we argue or where we stand, we have always held certain beliefs as Americans.
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They agreed that not every employer will be able to fill certain jobs with Americans, particularly when the economy is good, and that it was important for businesses to be allowed to hire foreigners.
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One important note: any agreement to make this change to the CPI must include a dedication of a portion of the savings to protections for low-income Americans, certain veterans, and older Social Security beneficiaries.
The university has long been unhappy that certain groups - African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans - are under-represented on campus.
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But he detected certain categories where African-Americans spend a bit more than others: fresh food, electronics, apparel, and telephone usage.
Already, at least for Americans under a certain age, the post delivers only bad news or nuisances, from jury summonses to junk mail.
That said, most gay Americans above a certain age have only to dip into their memories for proof that their country has grown dramatically more tolerant.
Americans of a certain age might recall a time when airlines were the gold standard of customer service, when champagne flowed freely and every passenger received a hot meal.
So while Americans were the certain beneficiaries of farming advances that freed up their labor, Saylor writes that 36.7% of the worldwide labor force is still stuck in agriculture.
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Americans are more certain in their support of Mr Bush, though of course this might change if, as in the Vietnam war, the conflict dragged on and the American casualties mounted.
The characters, including an engineer at a troubled computer-hardware firm, live in an Americanized work environment, yet certain emotions nearly lost to Americans, such as modesty and shame, still rule their lives.
To understand just how weird a development this is, understand that for Jewish-Americans of a certain age (I'm 42), rooting for Germany isn't how our fathers, grandfathers and Hebrew School teachers raised us.
These findings will no doubt be scoffed at by many Americans who are certain that they, and nearly everyone they know, are overworked (and who may find time to write letters to the editor saying so).
In the case of a new small car, the Fiesta, that will be sold worldwide starting next year, Ford's top U.S. designer, Peter Horbury, suggested jazzing up the largely European design by adding certain chrome details favored by Americans.
It is a very potent antioxidant, and numerous research studies have found an association between greater intake of beta carotene-containing fruits and vegetables and a reduced risk of disease including heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, age-related macular degeneration (the leading cause of blindness in older Americans) and even certain types of cancers.
What is for certain is that Romney grossly misrepresented the Americans he lumped into this group in his statement.
Americans will feel "a certain shock" after reading Thursday's report , White House National Security Adviser James Jones told USA Today.
But polls suggest that Americans are happy with a certain amount of flip-flopping: Mr Bush has all but destroyed the market in stubborn consistency.
And it means taking on the tax code, and cutting out certain tax breaks and deductions for the wealthiest Americans.
Preferential treatment on stock, Americans learned, was routine as certain clients on Morgan's "preferred list" were given the best offers.
Just like recent moves with Congressional redistricting, a review of the new Electoral College map shows how many Americans are moving to states that offer certain advantages.
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We need to take on spending in domestic programs, in defense programs, in entitlement programs, and we need to take on spending in the tax code -- spending on certain tax breaks and deductions for the wealthiest of Americans.
But no one is at all certain that harmony will persist when most of the Americans, who have recently taken over the leading foreign role in Basra from the British, themselves withdraw from Iraq in little over a year, if Barack Obama sticks to his proposed schedule.
As stated in our paper, the bottom line is that we still cannot explain why African Americans have higher rates of esophageal cancer and certain other smoking-related cancers compared to whites.
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Americans of all political stripes can agree on certain essential goals, such as how we must preserve the world's natural wonders for generations to come and how we must live in harmony with this world of finite natural resources.
Maybe certain sectors will suffer, but when we consider how many Americans the Big Three carmakers employ, the tax subsidies will, at least in the near-term, perpetuate their employment.
It wants to respond to growing public concern about genetically engineered food, and thus to reserve the right to reject imports of certain products (it is already in a dispute with the Americans over imports of hormone-treated beef).
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