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| | TIME.com: Person of the Week: Mitch Daniels -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Even though nobody was mentioning him by name, only Mitch Daniels could have come up with the extra $4.3 billion the White House desperately needed this week. |
 | | With Democrats smelling blood in the water in the form of a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal government was billions in the red and would have to borrow money from the Social Security surplus ; the "lock box" to break even this year, finding some extra cash was a political necessity. |
 | | Bush, in his half-descriptive, half-self-promotional way, has nicknamed his budget chief "the Blade," and from the start Daniels’ mandate was clear: be the sharp, merciless business end of his boss’ conservative desire for smaller government. |
| www.time.com /time/pow/article/0,8599,171656,00.html (865 words) |
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