Word: barack
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...Tsvangirai is adjusting well to his new role, successfully seizing the political initiative from the man who has held it for more than a generation. The contrast between the two leaders was never greater than on Tsvangirai's recent foreign tour, during which he was feted by President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. At an African Union summit in Libya, meanwhile, Mugabe stormed out of a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson, calling him an "idiot" for trying to "dictate...
...billion military-spending bill, ending a standoff between lawmakers who defended the $1.75 billion project (which does not include R&D costs) as a way to create as many as 25,000 jobs and those who derided the combat plane as a relic of the Cold War. President Barack Obama, who threatened to veto the entire bill if the F-22 plans weren't eliminated, hailed the decision as a major victory for Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his effort to curb spending on outdated weapons systems...
...challenge to our scientists - and to the federal checkbook - that will be even greater than the moon race. We're moving ahead on installing new clean energy - the U.S. was the fastest growing wind-power market in the world in 2008 - and Congress, with the support of President Barack Obama, is on the road to establishing caps on carbon dioxide...
...governor is doing his best to keep voters' focus on the economy; with New Jersey's unemployment rate nearing 10% and more people unemployed since the state started recording it in 1976, he is pegging his re-election bid to the success of stimulus programs passed by President Barack Obama and by Corzine himself in New Jersey. On July 28 in Philadelphia, about seven miles west of Pennsauken, Corzine stood with Vice President Joe Biden, proudly announcing $1 billion in stimulus funds being allocated to state law-enforcement agencies. "I think that we are seeing real movement with regard...
...eloquence is a big part of the reason that Barack Obama got to the Oval Office. There's always been a sense that his ability to explain things was tantamount to his ability to fix them. But the sheer complexity of health care has so far defied both his ability to explain and his power to fix. And in this case, the latter is an even greater challenge than the former...