If he plays his cards astutely, he will win plenty of allies in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Germany for a streamlining agenda, provided his strategy is aimed at future reform rather than retroactive unpicking of what is already established.
If you believe that there has been a hardening of the national arteries caused by a labyrinthine tax code, an unsustainable Medicare program and a suicidal addiction to deficits, then you appreciate this streamlining agenda, even if you don't buy into the whole Ayn Rand-influenced gospel of wealth.
But only modest progress was made here on slimming down these quarterly summit meetings of European leaders, with promises to streamline the agenda and to reduce the number of officials -- more than 1,000 -- who mill around chatting with one another over lavish buffets, shared by more than 4,000 accredited journalists.
The song touts the achievements of the group's reform agenda, including its anti-graft campaign, market-driven growth program, streamlined administration processes, "founding of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank," and "accelerating [of] the building of infrastructure".
After highlighting the bank's importance to his goal of doubling American exports, the president urged Congress to address other items on his agenda like streamlining the refinancing of home mortgages and creating tax breaks for companies that hire new workers.
Before the session began, Bruce denounced much of the House Republican caucus' legislative agenda as "streamlining socialism".
The presidents of selective colleges should set a new agenda for containing the college admissions frenzy, and that will take more than eliminating a streamlined process that helps students and colleges make good matches.
In contrast, the Action Agenda calls for testing of both old and new chemicals and suggests the process could be streamlined by using new analytical tools, including advances in molecular biology, computational toxicology, genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics.
Lancelets are streamlined animals.
