vague proposal

We now have a document before us which is significantly better than the Commission's original vague proposal.

The Post says this is a vague proposal, with the size of the tax cut still undefined.

My interpretation of the article was that the problem is what happens after the obviously bad, incomplete, or vague proposals have been removed.

Here, the rapporteur has done an excellent job in firming up rather vague proposals.

According to several negotiators, it outlined several new, but vague proposals to reduce farm protection.

The timid, vague proposals in the text are neither sufficient nor wholly satisfactory, but at least they exist.

Pardee vetoed the bill, explaining that he was not hostile to the idea of an agricultural school, but wanted a less vague proposal.

It is unclear on the recommended measures and limits itself to listing some vague proposals and justifications.

If you present us with very vague proposals, that will certainly delay implementation and lead to concern and disappointment throughout the EU.

Until Monday, however, he had offered only the vaguest proposals to fix them, instead exhorting Russians to mobilize against the threats facing the country.

Mr. Bennett, studiously ignoring the Mayor, offers a vague proposal for a task force with personnel lent by 10 Federal agencies.

Instead of honest debate and discussion, viewers saw two contenders sparring in an arena of vague proposals and lofty, indistinct promises.

Another source of turmoil for the young pilot, the report said, was a "lost love" for a former classmate who three years earlier had turned down his vague proposal of marriage.

The problem, however, is the enormous gulf between NATO's demands and the vague proposals that President Milosevic is floating through his Russian intermediaries.

Echoes of Mr. Chávez's policies here, like a vague proposal by Mr. Correa to "regulate" news organizations, have raised concern in some quarters.

Pillsbury's initial strategy consisted of a "secret plan" (it remained that way) for defeating the interloper followed by a vague proposal to recapitalize and spin off Burger King.

Road tunnel accidents have been on the increase in recent months, and this makes it particularly urgent for safety measures not to be delayed any further with White Papers and vague proposals.

The markets obviously view as inadequate his vague proposal for a "flexible freeze" on spending, but no lid on Social Security, and his adamant "read my lips - no new taxes."

It seemed to me highly doubtful, as I wrote in my diary on my return from the Reichstag, that the British and French would listen to these vague proposals "for five minutes."

The Ambassador, Rashid al-Rafai, was reported to have replied that Iraq would insist on the conditions that it outlined on Friday in its vague proposal to comply with United Nations resolutions.

The Government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl today approved more than $3 billion in emergency financial aid for the region's nearly bankrupt states and cities and introduced broad but vague proposals intended to spur a recovery.

So the State Department spokesman, James P. Rubin, says the United States will "take a serious, hard look" at Mr. Khatami's vague proposal for a more formalized expansion of cultural and educational exchanges.

Government officials said the expansion plan had been in the works for months and denied that its approval was intended as a response to Mr. Assad's vague proposal, made during an interview with The New York Times.

Mr. Bush, in one of his vaguer proposals, called for an expansion of legislation to retrain weapons scientists, saying the Nunn-Lugar program should be expanded from the former Soviet states to countries like Libya and Iraq.

And to allies of Mr. Ingrao who replied to Mr. Occhetto at the congress today, the new plan amounts to abandoning rich party traditions in favor of vague proposals that, they warned, may leave them worse off than before.