By far the biggest threat to the reforms, however, comes from the fact that Americans may choose to elect a president who wants to throw them out.

ECONOMIST: Health care

What George Bush says is he wants people to be able to get out of the Social Security system, choose, elect to get out of the Social Security system.

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The board may choose to re-elect you immediately, but you should give the directors that choice.

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The agreement stipulates that their organisations will have 80 delegates each at a 465-member national conference which will carry the peace process forward, choose a 13-man council to elect a president and set up a transitional government.

ECONOMIST: Somalia

This is about a president-elect, who just came off a bruising 21-month campaign, exercising his prerogative to choose whoever he wants to deliver the blessing at his inauguration.

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