The idea of partition is intolerable to the UN administration in Kosovo, committed to a single multi-ethnic state.
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.
Only a week after floating the idea of dramatically expanding tax-sheltered savings accounts, the administration has gone silent on the idea.
Complicating matters, the Obama administration openly opposes the idea of a repatriation holiday.
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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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What did they talk about, if we have any idea, and the reaction of this administration?
The Obama administration has long toyed with the idea of trying to draw Syria's leader "in from the cold".
It seems like an about face from the Bush administration, which has long resisted the idea of engaging the Iranians on the issue.
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.
Much of the rhetoric from Bush Administration officials in the lead-up to the invasion was reflective of the idea that the world is full of threats that are unseen and unknown, perhaps even unknowable.
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.
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 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 Administration is toying with the idea of permitting people to have up to 4 percentage points of that payroll tax go into personal accounts.
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.
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.
The idea of a central management console for all server and desktop administration tools is a complete change for NT users and should give managers greater control over more NT resources.
But administration officials insist they are philosophically opposed to the idea of routine supplemental appropriations beyond the Pentagon's regular budget, and that, in the future, the Pentagon should be adequately funded so it does not have to rely on emergency appropriations.
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What might also have qualified Ms. Jewell for the nomination is her open support for an idea of great interest to 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.
When he was Minister of Finance during a brief period early in the administration of the current president, Alfredo Palacios, he supported the idea of increasing monetary spending on social projects by not paying the foreign debt.
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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The third idea, which has been proposed by the Obama Administration, is a direct tax on the balance sheets of large, financial institutions.
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