In New York, the team expects to raise $140,000, all for Holocaust survivors, Rubinstein said, because philanthropic support covers the Blue Card's administration costs.
Fear, the only remaining card this administration still knows how to play, may once more give a seemingly spent G.O.P. a crack at the White House in 2008.
All in all, it has been a bad end-of-term card for the administration.
"If we dillydallied," Mr. Card said, the administration would be criticized for failing to solve a central bureaucratic problem.
"We expected a very different picture at this stage," said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control group that last month issued a report card failing the administration in all seven of the group's major indicators.
With Gov. George W. Bush on hiatus at the family compound in Kennebunkport, Me., Mr. Gore took the opportunity to unveil his "prosperity and progress tour," a multiweek drive to revive his flagging campaign by reminding voters of what some strategists say has the potential to be a Gore trump card: the Clinton administration's economic record.
The benefits for those in traditional Medicare would consist of a drug discount card, which the administration says could save beneficiaries 10 to 25percentt in pharmacy purchases, and protection against very high drug costs, which are undefined, but beneficiaries might be required to spend $4,000 to $7,000 of their own money each year before getting relief.
He was enthusiastically thrust a business card by an administration official even before he left the stage after giving a demo on how quickly the government could set up a flu hotline with his software.
In order to improve its report card grade, the administration needs not only to address lobbyist influence and increase transparency in government.
You exploited your blame-the-past-administration card when you stated that Assad's atrocious chemical attack is "a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution".
According to organizers, the majority of the school's 1,300 adjuncts have signed union authorization cards, but the administration is opposing the plan, which it says will "dramatically and negatively impact the mission of the university".
