In some areas, American academic thinking has proved more influential with New Labour than it has in Washington itself.
In Washington itself, as you'd expect, this overzealousness is even more intense.
And even in Washington itself, Lamar Alexander, a senior Republican senator, recently quit his leadership post so he could devote more time to forging consensus and working across the aisle.
As Washington establishes itself as an enormous financial hub, lobbyists latch to political axles like spokes on a wheel.
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Seeing that those people probably account for many of each party's activists, the danger of Washington tearing itself apart is real.
Washington is refreshing itself, no doubt impressed by its own flourishing existence.
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Washington immediately reorganised itself around the executive branch.
Deloitte is engaged by the bank directly to review the potential liability of JPMorgan for the foreclosure errors and fraud that occurred as a result of mortgages made by Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual and JPMChase itself.
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Assume the Fed doesn't turn on the printing presses, Washington is nonetheless putting itself in a position to force banks to buy government bonds, just as it forced them to do its bidding with Chrysler and GM.
The CSPI describes itself as a Washington-based nonprofit health advocacy group focusing on nutrition and food safety.
In June 2006 Howard Lederer joined the board of directors of the Poker Players Alliance, a Washington lobbying group that billed itself as a grassroots organization representing American poker players.
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This hurts California on the national stage: its congressional delegation, although the largest in Washington, is often at odds with itself.
And now, moving into the Obama administration, Israel finds itself with fewer and fewer allies in Washington's security community.
He said that Colombia sees itself as "a bridge" between Washington and all of Latin America, including countries with which it does not have good relations.
Because deficit reduction, with the exception of a few esoteric groups -- most of them inside Washington -- is not a desirable goal unto itself, it is a goal in service of a bigger goal, which is economic growth, stability for the middle class, more and better job creation.
That put Jones in a very good position to witness the development of the idea for the march on Washington, the planning for it, and the event itself.
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Alexander Hamilton, the subject of this penetrating portrait, was in the thick of it all-from the agitation preceding the American Revolution, through the war itself (as a key staffer for George Washington and then as a courageous officer in the field), to the writing and adopting of the Constitution, to the rise of partisan politics.
The bill itself is being rolled out for prime time exposure in Washington, but its real timetable may be longer than it seems.
In a letter to Yale's President Richard Levin, the PLO representative in Washington, DC Maen Rashid Areikat, demanded that the university disassociate itself from the conference.
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says that this is just one sign that Pakistan is trying to assert itself much more when it comes to its relationship with Washington.
Every penny that is spent on education has to be diverted from these other options--unless education spending is to be viewed as an end in itself, as many professional educators, and seemingly the Washington Post, do.
Our small and independent business owners want to see these cuts take place, they want to see a reversal in trend in Washington, and when they feel this trend has begun to reverse itself, they will begin to hire, invest in plant equipment and software and hardware.
McCain says Washington has to reconsider every option and increase America's ability to supply itself with energy.
Obama also made clear that Israel has the right to defend itself as it sees fit, which amounted to a diplomatic signal that Washington would not stop a unilateral Israeli strike at some future point if no progress occurred.
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The summit itself, which the President initiated with the summit he held here in Washington, reflects his extraordinary commitment to the issue of nuclear security globally -- because there is really no greater threat to the security of the American people than the potential for terrorists to acquire nuclear weapons.
It is only fair to say that even this blueprint, which many people in Washington like because of the leading role taken by France and the UK has not yet proven itself a success - the bombing goes on.
"When in due course we learn the fate of Saddam Hussein, I wouldn't expect that, in and of itself, to solve the security problem, " Powell said at a news conference in Washington.
But it is thought Washington is reluctant to commit further funds and will want to spend its foreign aid unilaterally, rather than committing itself to a joint programme.
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