In a deal that substantially tested President Bush's negotiating skills, the White House and congressional Republicans completed an agreement yesterday on a budget blueprint that raises federal spending by 5 percent next year and makes the deepest tax cuts in 20 years. Working people would be allowed to put more of their savings in retirement accounts under legislation that sailed through the House of Representatives yesterday. The proposal still must be approved by the Senate and President Bush, though, and would have to survive negotiations between Congress and the president on an overall tax-cut package. The Pentagon said yesterday that future contacts with the Chinese military are under review, but it withdrew a directive from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to suspend all contacts. Teen-agers slip their hands down one another's waistbands.
Hips grind together.
Guys lie on the floor with girls straddling them. Cautious reaction to missile defense Russia eager to begin dialogue with president, but doesn't want unilateral ABM pullout by U.S. Responding to President Bush's call for a deployment of missile defenses, Russia said yesterday it was eager to begin the new strategic dialogue Bush suggested to devise a common approach to new missile threats and to further reduce nuclear arsenals. Fears of a walkout have gripped the industry for months, but the writers guild has yet to call for a strike authorization vote from its members. When Mary Gelinas cruises the halls of the assisted-living apartment complex on her afternoon rounds, few residents greet her by name. In an alert issued to the nearly 5,000 hospitals it evaluates, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations said doctors are seeing a re-emergence of a rare condition called kernicterus in newborns.