Israeli officials are less convinced than foreign leaders about the benefits of a full-scale tilt toward the business community, but they see room for increased activity.
But to make room for increases in spending for special education and for aid to schools in poor neighborhoods, the administration would reduce spending on other programs, including vocational and adult education.
Mr. Daniels said that the administration's projection of a return to surplus in 2005 makes room for increased spending on national security as well as for other issues like health care.
"The price of real estate in Croatia is already at the level of the rest of the E.U., or even higher, so we certainly see no room for increasing prices," Ms. Likan said.
Nevertheless, GNM believes there is room for increased openness in the marketplace and its move to drop bulks will benefit advertisers, readers and retailers, combined with an environmental benefit via a reduction in carbon emissions.
At first glance, the cuts may seem manageable, but they leave no room for increased enrollment if many more people lose their jobs or their insurance in the downturn.
Mr. Daschle said there would not be room for increases in spending that have bipartisan support, like for education, much less for expensive initiatives that are sure to be fought over in Congress, including Mr. Bush's call for a national missile defense, whose price tag remains unknown.
And at an earlier news briefing, Mayor Giuliani questioned whether the teachers deserved a large raise, saying that they worked far fewer hours than other municipal workers and than teachers in other cities. "In the case of the teachers, there is a lot of room for increased productivity that might not exist with some other workers," Mr. Giuliani said.
To make room for increases in defence and homeland security spending, other domestic spending will be frozen in nominal terms.Unfortunately, Mr Bush has laid out how to do this only for 2006 (after then he offers no breakdown by department or programme).
