Mr. Bush is portraying the law as one of his major domestic achievements.

President Bush had hoped, as he runs for re-election, to cite the law as one of his most significant domestic achievements.

Halting and uncertain before he finally asserted strong control, that effort resulted in probably the outstanding domestic achievement of his administration.

But he wants his Presidency to be known for domestic achievements like health care reform and economic revival.

But Mr. Yeltsin's domestic achievements may be even more significant.

Conversely, most students have tended to underrate his domestic achievements.

What we need is real simple: a less material and aggressively ambitious culture, one that values domestic as well as personal achievement.

His outstanding domestic achievements were tax reform in 1986 and now a major foreign trade bill.

For most it means more local, private, domestic achievements: coping with living and contributing to the lives of those around them.

Our interest now, indeed perhaps our survival, depends on exporting in the next 50 years the domestic achievements of the last.