These include claims that the accord will help dissuade would-be proliferators to abandon their nuclear weapons ambitions and the assertion that U.S. international leadership is on the line.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: New START, old stratagem

So the bottom line is we have to get everybody on the same sheet of music, from senior civilian leadership, political appointees, line leadership and then the support.

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Mr. RON POLLACK (Executive Director, Families USA): I think that anybody who knows the story of Billy Tauzin's leadership in the House of Representatives on the Medicare legislation and how it really toed the line of the pharmaceutical industry to their tremendous benefit and then not too long thereafter he becomes president of PhRMA, I think people will feel that this is inappropriate.

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The bottom line however, is that Congress needs to show the leadership on Army modernization it has shown in the past, and fully fund the Future Combat Systems.

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He also plans to draw attention to how often Ms Morella falls into line with the Republican leadership, particularly on economic issues such as the giant 2001 tax cut.

ECONOMIST: Nice congresswoman, shame about the party

The fact that up to 70% of the variance in organisational climate is caused by leadership style makes a clear case for directors to start adjusting behaviour and performance to achieve a demonstrable impact on the bottom line.

ECONOMIST: Simeon says...

Right now the agenda in the House is mostly being run by a core group of conservatives called the Republican Study Committee, and they're led by a man named Mike Pence of Indiana, not a member of the formal leadership, but somebody who is insisting on the budget cuts, insisting on extending the tax cuts, and taking a hard line on Iraq.

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