Idioms in news: President Bush's plan just the doctor ordered

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the doctor ordered: exact what needed

(CBS/AP) The Bush administration plans will spend an initial $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout buying stock in private banks, greatly expanding protections for the U.S. financial system out of deep concern for the faltering economy, industry and government officials said Monday night. President George W. Bush planned announced the details Tuesday morning.
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Nobel Laureate, Economics Paul Krugman, the American academic who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday, told CBS Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith the bank investment is what the doctor ordered, as far as we can tell.