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On his first day in office, President Obama is focusing on his election promises, particularly regarding the economy and Iraq. He plans to meet with his economic team and military advisers to address these issues, while also preparing to issue executive orders to halt last-minute regulations from the previous administration. The economy is expected to be the primary focus of his early presidency as he seeks to be seen as taking decisive action.

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On his first day in office, President Obama is focusing on his election promises, particularly regarding the economy and Iraq. He plans to meet with his economic team and military advisers to address these issues, while also preparing to issue executive orders to halt last-minute regulations from the previous administration. The economy is expected to be the primary focus of his early presidency as he seeks to be seen as taking decisive action.

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BBC Learning English

Words in the news


21st January 2009
Obama first day

President Obama is making his first efforts to act on his election promises. Today he meets
his economic team; he is also promising to get together with his military advisers soon to
make a plan to pull troops out of Iraq. Justin Webb reports:

Last July, then candidate Obama made a promise about Iraq. 'On my first day in office', he
said, 'I will bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff in and I will give them a new mission, and that is to
end the war responsibly and deliberately, but decisively'. Since then something else has
happened of course - the world economy has collapsed, and politically it's now more
important for him to be seen to be acting on the economy than on Iraq.

Nonetheless, both subjects will figure in his discussions today. This administration is
promising action across the board, so a number of executive orders are likely to come soon.
Already last night the White House - in a memo signed by the new Chief of Staff - ordered all
the last-minute regulations signed by President Bush to be put on hold.

But it is the economy that will dominate the early days of this administration - and on which
Mr Obama knows he will be judged.

Justin Webb, BBC News, Washington

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Vocabulary and definitions

responsibly while being in control and having good judgement,


enabling/allowing you to take correct actions

deliberately with a clear intent, purposefully

decisively without hesitation/dithering

collapsed unexpectedly and seriously failed

to be seen to be acting on that people see him taking measures to improve

figure in the topics of

across the board in all areas of political, economic and social life

to be put on hold to stop being introduced or enforced

dominate be the main focus of his attention in

he will be judged people will form their opinions about him

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