Word: allowed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...referring to the reversal in early voting trends - and echoing the routine accusations of "irregularities" that arise during any internal PS polling - Valls repeatedly spoke of "cheating" before making the comment that has many observers now calling the Socialists' central Paris headquarters "la Floride-sur-Seine." "We won't allow victory to be stolen," Valls pledged...
...Three Easy Pieces,” at the Carpenter Center.“You could call this talk ‘Three Easy Pieces and One Really Hard Piece,’” he said. The bare script of “Godot” allowed itself to be molded by the chaos of post-Katrina New Orleans. Describing the production, Chan recalled, “the bat...the cars, and the drunk guy screaming, ‘I’m waiting too!’” These stray sounds from the city helped settle...
...limitations. “You have to shift from one subject to another in the same format,” he says. But this concern continues to be addressed by those who work with new media. “Lossless” utilizes more than one format, allowing for an immersive viewing experience in the gallery and, through the Wiki, a more informational element that can be explored and edited from any computer. Likewise, student groups like The Advocate have used new media to allow for expansion into new formats so that different types of content can be shared with...
...Keeping Gates would allow Obama to demonstrate bipartisanship in national security, an area particularly dear to Republicans. (But it might also be taken as a sign that the Democratic bench on military matters is so weak the party has to rely on a holdover from a GOP Administration...
...Keeping Gates as the Defense Secretary would allow him to continue his push to focus the military's efforts on insurgencies of the type it's facing in Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than on the hypothetical conventional wars for which it would prefer to plan - and for which it continues to order up costly weapons. (But continuity would also keep Pentagon spending, already at World War II levels, climbing into the stratosphere on autopilot...