The main Bush campaign theme in the president's speeches and the political ads will be "steady leadership for times of change, " according to a senior Bush aide.
My main disappointment with Bush is that he is always trying to create a crisis to sell his policies such as his tax cut and his energy policy.
My main concern is with Bush's economic policy because that is my field of expertise.
But the two main causes of Mr Bush's current plight will loom over the rest of his presidency: Iraq and the economy.
For Mr Bush the main priority was to stay upright, to prove that he could compete with a man who has spent seven years in the White House.
In my view, one of the main faults of the Bush administration, in conjunction with a profligate Republican Congress, was that they squandered the surpluses that we now need.
On the face of it, this might seem to undermine one of the main advantages that a Bush presidency offered, which was that it would be less destabilising than a Gore presidency, largely because Republicans were more bitterly opposed to a Gore victory and more inclined to perceive it as illegitimate had it happened.
In today's 50-50 America, Mr Bush's main priority is to galvanise his half of the electorate.
President Bush's main message: Congress needs to move fast on the collection of tax rebates, business incentives and mortgage lending reforms.
Mr Bush's other main second-term goal on the home front, to simplify America's bewildering tax code, seems an even more distant hope.
One of the main concerns cited by experts about Bush's approach is that it would create incentives for healthier seniors to move into cheaper plans, leaving the sick in traditional Medicare.
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Speaking at a press conference, Bush said one of the main reasons he asked U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker to meet with Iranians in Iraq "was to send the message there will be consequences" for those who transport explosively formed penetrators into Iraq.
In staking out that middle ground, Dole has actually proved more nimble than her main rival, Texas Governor George W. Bush.
As Bush travels through the region, his main South American foe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, is taking a tour of his own.
Yet Mr Bush has a surprising amount of credibility with Main Street America on the subject.
The main aim of all this activity has been to eliminate Mr Bush's two big negatives.
The main reason for this hope appears to be that in 1991 Mr Bush's father threatened to suspend loan guarantees to Israel over the issue of illegal settlements.
The authors' main calculations also make no allowance for bequests to descendants (Mr Bush has promised that the retired should be allowed to transfer part of their individual accounts to their heirs).
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The Netherlands and Spain are cutting their contributions to the Global Fund, one of the two main distributors of the life-saving drugs (the other is Mr Bush's brainchild, PEPFAR), and Italy has stopped paying altogether.
For the South Korean leader, the main consideration is negotiations with North Korea, towards which he would like Mr Bush to take a softer line.
Vice-President Al Gore, Mr Stepashin's opposite number during his visit, is already under attack for his Russian policy from his main Republican challenger for the presidency, the governor of Texas, George W. Bush.
Mr Bush has received praise for being willing to take on discretionary spending, the main source of power for Congress.
The basic decisions were made by then President Bush and his secretary of state and national security adviser (interestingly, the main sceptic at the time was Mr Cheney, who argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not against America's global interests).
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President Bush spoke from Jackson Square, in the heart of the French Quarter, with the city's main cathedral and a statue of Andrew Jackson behind him.
In his opinion, Mr Buchanan's main drawback is that he appeals to conservatives - and the Republican Party already has a conservative candidate in George W Bush running with a very conservative vice-presidential nominee.
The fear is not that Messrs Putin and Bush will find it hard to talk, but that there is little left to talk about: the main argument over Iraq is over, the delayed Moscow treaty on disarmament has been ratified, and Russia is said to be paying more heed to American worries about its support for Iran's nuclear programme.
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