11.   No Chinese leader in his shoes could be expected to undertake any bold new initiatives with an American president.

12.   Presidential candidates like to talk about bold initiatives.

13.   Rather than announcing bold new initiatives, however, many nations, including the United States, mainly listed actions they had already announced or taken.

14.   Some say it now shrinks from bold initiatives.

15.   Some people, including at least one board member, have said it was a relatively bland document that contained no bold initiatives.

16.   That bold initiative was harshly truncated by a penurious Congress, reduced to a tiny experimental level and never allowed to approach its potential.

17.   The BOLD initiative will keep track of experienced professionals as well as men and women right out of college.

18.   The other can be called Monica Lewinsky, a beleaguered president feeling unable to take a bold initiative.

19.   There might not be as many bold initiatives, they said, but the trains would run on time.

20.   This is indeed the time for bold Israeli diplomatic initiatives.