There are elements and echoes of this plan around – in Gordon Brown's idea to call an international conference to set a date for withdrawal; in the FCO paper calling for a strategic reconciliation with the Quetta Shura.
With the announcement of its new structure, as well as the weaker financial forecasts, WorldCom largely seemed to echo the plan that AT&T announced last week.
Andrew Cuomo focused on preschool children and literacy as he announced an education plan yesterday, echoing the plan released on Sunday by H. Carl McCall, his opponent for the Democratic nomination for New York governor.
Press Secretary Tony Snow echoed the plan to appeal to Congress.
Bergdahl's conversations with a screenwriter after his release became the basis for the latest season of the podcast "Serial," and echo the plan he explains in the interview, at times referring to himself in the third person.
"I've heard criticisms of this plan that echo the very same failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis, the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems, that we can ignore the fundamental challenges like energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive," he said.
According to this plan, the echoing spaces, cobwebs and rusting iron shutters of the 400,000-square-foot structure, a city and state landmark in the neighborhood known as Dumbo, are to yield to a Chelsea Market-ish conglomeration of restaurants, retail shops, art galleries and performance spaces.
A trust fund administered by the World Bank will manage the money.This structure echoes a plan drawn up for the government in 2008 by Paul Collier, an economist at Oxford University.
The proposal echoes a plan by the Bush administration to raise payments to survivors of soldiers killed in combat to $100,000 from $12,000.
In some respects, the Republican bill echoes a plan Obama offered in April to tie interest rates to the yield on the 10-year Treasury bill, rather than setting them via an act of Congress.
