Word: backed
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...case you were concerned, Cuomo is getting the “cozy lower bunk for sleeping - none of that back lounge bedroom stuff for him!” Koch said...
...unlike the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which many accused of being an agglomeration of pork-barrel projects, Obama’s new proposals have a national focus. They represent efficient use of federal funds to provide much-needed stimulus to an economy that still isn’t back on its feet...
...much-needed relief for a staggering economy, Obama is right to assert that we must “not let up in our efforts to take every responsible action to get the economy growing.” These proposals represent exactly the sort of responsible spending needed to bring back economic prosperity...
...after eight years of war," Chiarelli said. That shortage has made it tougher "to handle what I think is a higher rate of substance abuse today than eight years ago." Why is it higher? "I think it's only natural you're going to see that as soldiers come back [from war], you know, with the dwell time that they have [before returning to war], that we're going to have a higher rate." Last week, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said pressure on the Army means that for the next two years, soldiers will continue...
Just minutes before the attack - which took place on Sunday night at the end of a political rally - a group of young opponents had started heckling Berlusconi. The Prime Minister barked back and ultimately led his supporters in chants of "Shame! Shame! Shame!" in response to the protesters. In that context, Berlusconi's decision to display his bloody wounds could well have been a further rhetorical flourish, a melodramatic "Look what you've contributed to." (See a story about Silvio Berlusconi's legal woes...