They require no watering, no mowing and no chemicals.

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The abrupt postponement of the reform package left Mr Koizumi's government scrambling to limit the damage and the prime minister insisting to an increasingly sceptical audience that there would be no watering down of the central elements of Mr Takenaka's proposals.

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Look for the watering down of No Child Left Behind testing standards, as a favor to the National Education Association.

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