Let's try and find a way to enter into the original spirit of what this piece was about, to play with the tension between an 18th-century text and a 21st-century context.
Without clarity around increased health care rates and higher tax rates, the company is prepared to enter 2011 with a "let's not rock the boat" strategy.
It is bad enough that the Clinton Administration is allowing political considerations to enter into, let alone to drive, decisions concerning the further U.S. involvement in the Mir program that should be made exclusively on the basis of realistic net assessments of the considerable safety and financial costs weighed against what are, at best, limited prospective scientific and technical benefits.