As he sees it, "You have public awareness, outrage over the consequences of a failed regulatory system and an administration and Congress prepared to respond".
If we rely on governmental micromanaging to protect us, the financial behemoths will eventually find a way to game the system, or an administration too friendly to the financial industry will fail us.
As a further precaution against fiery speechifying - and also to prevent subversives from seizing control of the public address system - an administration official was positioned to the right of the Lincoln Memorial with an automatic cut-off switch and a record turntable.
Under the caretaker system, an independent administration at the end of a government's term is set up to try to ensure that elections were conducted in an impartial manner.
Of the national missile defense system, a senior administration official said, "President Clinton made clear, as he has publicly, that he has not made a decision, but he intends to make a decision during the course of this summer".
Of course, since the bump-up is a flat amount, some people with lower benefits might receive a bigger increase than they would under the current system, a senior administration official from the White House explained.
"That whole enchilada is not digestible in the U.S. political system," a senior administration official said last week, playing off the comment of Jorge G. Castaneda, Mexico's former foreign minister, who said in the summer of 2001 that the immigration deal had to be "the whole enchilada, or nothing".
Therefore, we selected the SSC-ADMIN system, which is an administration module for the SSC system.
"He's not going to sign a bill that he thinks makes the system worse," said Daniel J. Bartlett, an administration spokesman.
