Word: backed
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...It’s a shame that Beckham’s injured now,” Crimson coach Ray Leone says. “He was just getting back to playing his normal position at center midfield. Our team was present for what may have been the last good professional game of his career...
...history. Obama became a very different President in the process. After a first year in office that promised consequence but never quite delivered on it, he had done something huge. The comparisons with Jimmy Carter would abruptly come to an end. He was now a President who didn't back down, who could herd cats, who was not merely intellectual and idealistic but tough enough to force his way. This is bound to change the landscape of American politics. It makes significant progress on other issues - financial reform, immigration, perhaps even the reduced use of carbon fuels - more plausible...
...abnormal for any industry to throw back upon the community the human wreckage due to its wear and tear, and the hazards of sickness ... should be provided for through insurance," said Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, at the dawn of the progressive era. The work of building a social safety net for the industrial age proceeded, in fits and starts, for the next 50 years. The excesses of that effort brought the Reaganite swing in the opposite direction, during which time the protections frayed and the need for a new, more flexible information-age safety net became apparent...
...seem the most marketable. This was a problem on the left for a long time. When Congressman Randy Neugebauer of Texas screamed "Baby killer!" on the House floor, the epithet resonated - the protesters who screamed those same words at U.S. troops in the 1960s sent the American pendulum swinging back toward conservatism and crippled the Democratic Party for several generations. The Tea Party nativism, paranoia and anti-intellectualism embraced by the Republicans have rarely been a winning hand in American politics. (See pictures of the Tea Party movement...
...Hopes that a change of regime in Iran would somehow break the nuclear stalemate have dimmed, with the authorities having successfully contained the challenge of the Green Movement (whose leaders, in any case, publicly backed their country's nuclear program). And despite President Obama keeping the proverbial "all options" on the table, the U.S. military leadership is opposed to trying to resolve the nuclear standoff by force: Bombing Iran's facilities would likely only set back its nuclear program by a few years (and make weaponization more likely), goes the reasoning, at a cost of a possibly starting a calamitous...