Although details on the breakdown are lacking, the package focuses on infrastructure spending — airports, subways, railroads — which will clearly bolster the beleaguered sector.
But easily the most contentious part of the package focused on the antinarcotics aid to Colombia and other countries in the region, including Ecuador and Bolivia.
It is expected to explain in detail how members of the old board awarded Mr. Grasso his pay package, focusing on what critics have described as the web of insider ties and conflicting relationships under Mr. Grasso.
Instead, the package focused on promised new steps that respond to demands from Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., to establish the "context" of guarantees that the guerrilla group says it needs as a condition for disarming.
In a meeting with the most ardent House conservatives, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, laid out a package focused on an overhaul of Medicare and a path toward a comprehensive simplification of the tax code.
The group's leader, Representative Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, emerged still adamant that any way forward must include a hit to the Affordable Care Act, even if the package focused on entitlement programs — also called "mandatory" spending.
While insisting the government was sticking to its austerity plan despite a gloomier outlook for the economy, the chancellor levied a surprise £2bn windfall tax on North Sea oil companies to finance a populist 1p a litre reduction in the price at the pumps as the unexpected finale of a reform package focused on reversing Britain's economic decline.
That, says President Hu Jintao, is the best contribution the People's Republic can make to global recovery, and the government has shown its seriousness by announcing a 4tn yuan $580bnn) stimulus package focused on infrastructure, accompanied by a wide range of monetary-easing measures and steps to boost rural incomes.
The action package focuses on behavior descriptions and control- and data-flow relationships determined by them.
The code package focuses on the named items from the "source code" and several basic structural relationships between them.
