1.   The president should take the necessary steps of raising taxes and cutting public spending.

2.   The president takes the oath of office in a public ceremony.

3.   The president took immediate steps to stop the fighting.

4.   The president took the oath of office .

5.   The president is taking questions from the floor.

6.   American presidents usually take awhile to get a fix on China.

7.   Although the power to declare war is given to Congress by the Constitution, the power to make war has been increasingly taken by presidents.

8.   Among those whose careers were ended, five days after the president took office last month, are two colonels linked to killings involving American citizens.

9.   And for that reason, the president has also taken some pro-environmental steps.

10.   And last December, Harvard weathered other unaccustomed headlines when its president, Neil Rudenstine, took an unscheduled leave of absence to recover from job stress.