President Clinton's surprise decision to propose the first balanced budget in a generation may not by itself have much impact on taxes, spending or the economy.

Today, with the surprise decision to televise an extended news conference and debate on human rights, China may have returned the favor.

A day earlier, he had made a surprise decision to testify, but answered only six questions from his lawyers.

His surprise decision threw the governor's race, the only one this year outside of Virginia, into upheaval.

C1 The vice chairman of the Fed said the surprise decision last week to cut interest rates was not based on any nonpublic information.

The announcements were a result of Libya's surprise decision in 2003 to renounce terrorism.

This Bell disclosure is being treated as a "surprise decision" in some journalistic quarters.

Historians have debated the factors that led to Johnson's surprise decision.

To justify the surprise decision, a senior administration official said, "This was no time to send a signal of uncertainty."

Google had announced its surprise decision by saying that it did not want to take part in a drawn-out fight.