Word: afterthought
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...around the perimeter definitely opened up a lot of shots.”He nailed his seventh and final three of the half with 29 seconds remaining on the clock. Goffredo had 22 points at the break, and the Crimson lead was 22. He was no longer just the afterthought role player. He was the difference.“We had to do a better job knowing where he is,” Brown coach Glen Miller said. “He got hot, and he’s one of the better shooters in our league...
...forcing himself to peel emotions down to the skin, and beneath them, Bergman has created a naked emotional biography. He has said Saraband is his last film - a final primal scream - and we should be grateful for it, since his art and craft are undiminished. Here is no octogenarian afterthought to a distinguished career. This is a testament of love and anguish from the man who used to be called the greatest living filmmaker. Well, dammit, he was. And, as Saraband proves, he still...
That's why Bush is calling this week for a series of border-security measures that will make his guest-worker plan look like an afterthought in his immigration policy. Bush will call for the hiring of more border guards and the use of more technology like unmanned aircraft and ground sensors to better police the borders. He will also push for increased holding facilities for illegal immigrants who are picked up. Roughly 100,000 a year benefit from a de facto "catch and release" policy, since there aren't enough beds for them...
...usual reluctance to ask for sacrifice from Americans, and that added to the sense that he just didn't get it. While Southern Governors facing fuel shortages in the coming days have called on drivers to scale back use of their cars, Bush did so only as an afterthought. "We ought to conserve more," he finally said on Thursday, making it seem like a vague option. The same day, Bush all but spurned offers of help from allies because of the way it would look. "I'm sure he saw it as a sign of American weakness to be taking...
...politicians like New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Then where was the call for sacrifice? While southern governors like Georgia Republican Sonny Perdue worried publicly about gas shortfalls as soon as this weekend and begged for conservation, Bush seemed to do so only as an afterthought...