Spreading the pain around helps reassure interest groups that they are not being unfairly singled out.
And Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, is reassuring everybody that interest rates are staying down, despite the rapidly improving jobs data.
But as Democrats go, Mr. Lieberman has been quite friendly to business generally, something that could reassure corporate interests that have been tepid about Mr. Gore.
He follows the Republican platform of last summer very closely, but there is an appreciable difference with regard to the treatment of capitalist combinations and "government by injunction," which may probably irritate the Labour leaders, but will somewhat reassure business interests and holders of railroad and industrial stocks.
For a start, it's reassuring to see such interest in social enterprise training.
"There is, and has been, a consistent interest in reassuring the Israelis that we're not going to be played," said Dennis B. Ross, who was one of the president's senior advisers on Iran and is now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
It is reassuring to note that interest in the region, and in particular in Singapore, has been tremendous over the past year.
So in the interest of reassuring struggling students, I offer this partial catalog of some of the many bad ideas I accumulated during my college years.
In the interest of reassuring struggling students, I offer this partial catalog of some of the many bad ideas I accumulated during my college years.
Secretary Powell's difficult job has been to reinforce the new relationship with Pakistan while reassuring India that its interests will not be overlooked.
