Sweeping, across the board, tax rate cuts worked to produce historic economic booms in the 1920s, the 1960s, and the 1980s, extending all the way to 2007, as noted above.

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Those proposals include sweeping entitlement reforms across the board that over the long run would reduce federal spending by half as a percent of GDP from what it would be otherwise.

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Some of these ideas have been modest, but plans such as Bush's call for a sweeping across-the-board cut in income tax rates, a massive national missile defense effort and fundamental restructuring of Social Security and Medicare represent the sort of bold departures from which his father recoiled.

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But the state takeover of Detroit would be more sweeping, akin to the control board over Washington, D.

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And you noticed that in the wake of that, when there was a vote at the IAEA Board of Governors, that there was a great sweeping consensus in support of that vote.

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The board and especially chairwoman Helen Dragas also asked Ms. Sullivan to undertake more sweeping reform.

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