That success played no small role in giving Bush a different and more appealing aura in the early days of the GOP presidential contest.
"To pay for all his new spending he's proposed, my opponent will have to raise taxes, not just on small-business owners, but on everyone who's ever worked for a small business, shopped at a small business or walked by a small business, " Bush said.
Locals have to go into the bush to farm small plots of land, a dangerous necessity, explains camp leader Tomo Kello(ph).
Mr. Bush afforded a small group an insight into his thinking on this and related matters, and a sense of the urgency he will attach to the Patriot Act's renewal, in a meeting last Thursday.
He also has a knack of picking up enemies, both great (George Pataki, the state governor, may spend more time supporting the presidential bid of George W. Bush) and small: Mr Giuliani has broken what is arguably the first commandment of authoritarian politicians by waging war on New York's taxi-drivers.
President Bush yesterday announced some small steps like suspending purchases for the strategic reserve and encouraging the purchase of hybrid cars.
The Bush meeting with the small group of House Republicans came a day after the president met with the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House International Relations Committee.
Mr. Bush spent time in a small village, loading crates of lettuce onto a truck.
Among the Bush proposals is to allow small businesses to pool together to buy coverage, an arrangement know as association health plans.
That looks unlikely, in part because many of the races are in small or sparsely populated states that Mr Bush won in 2000.
In a speech to a Small Business Administration conference in Washington, Bush announced five proposals focusing on technology to ensure affordable and reliable supplies of energy.
But the overwhelming 80-14 vote masks the broad expectation that because of an unrelated fight over the Bush tax cuts, the small business bill is unlikely to pass the chamber.
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The Bush White House once again bears no small responsibility for this bipartisan legislative travesty.
Other than a little small talk at the NATO summit in November, Bush has not spoken at length to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for more than a year.
President Bush said he enjoyed stopping in a small village at a vegetable packing plant and seeing how indigenous farmers have been able to find new markets for their goods.
The Bush tax cuts, other tax extenders and small business packages with job stimulus have taken center stage.
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On that basis, Bush clearly is not a Reaganite or "small c" conservative.
President Bush and others have said that this is a small minority in an otherwise peaceful religion.
Obama took office, due in no small part to the Part D drug benefits pushed through by the Bush administration (which benefited primarily the pharmaceutical companies).
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Small-cap stocks have rallied more strongly than large-caps this year, despite their historically weaker ability to avoid taxes and the likelihood that an end-of-year repeal of the Bush tax rate cuts would fall more heavily on entrepreneurial small companies.
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Mr Bush is insisting on reforming subsidy payments that disproportionately benefit a small cadre of big agribusinesses in mostly Republican states.
Walls made from canvas and mosquito netting give onto the bush and onto a private deck furnished with chaise lounges and a small private pool.
Eliminating the Bush tax cuts for the highest earners, however, will only put a small dent in the projected deficit.
Another reason not to change course was that Mr Bush's presidency is on an uptick at the moment, albeit a small one.
Their refusal to give Obama any credit for the fall of Gadhafi (some gave more credit to Great Britain and France) and harsh criticisms of his Iraqi timetable (the final pullout from Iraq was set by George W. Bush, not Obama) plays well with the Republican base, but looks small to other voters.
Bush participated in four sessions: economic recovery and job creation, corporate responsibility, small investors and retirement security, and health care security.
The first contradiction is Mr Bush's insistence on governing like a big-government conservative while taxing like a small-government one.
Last month, near the small town of Ajo, Borstar agents found two Mexican men on the brink of death under a mesquite bush.
And Republicans should recognize that much as they may dislike what Hagel said about the security policies of the Bush Administration, those policies became part of a big detour away from traditional Republican beliefs in small government and fiscal restraint.
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The Bush Administration will probably propose, as it has in the past, allowing workers to allocate a small portion of their Social Security tax to their own personal savings accounts.
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