Word: bedrocks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...DeLay's campaign focused on getting early absentee voters to the polls, usually the bedrock of primary election successes, and solidifying his base, particularly local officials. The congressman also resumed his seat on the House Appropriations Committee and was quick to remind his Houston suburban voters just how important that seat is-campaign literature touts his $1 billion delivery of federal funds for transportation, law enforcement and NASA...
...totally secure. The problem pointed to most often is a lack of oversight. Customs agents inspect a small percentage of shipping containers, but the Bush Administration asks cargo companies to supervise the bulk of security. It's an arrangement designed to allow the President to be true to two bedrock principles--being tough on terrorism and resisting federal regulation of private industry. "That leads to a paradox in the security area," says Stephen Flynn, a terrorism expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, "because [security] requires a more assertive federal role...
...apparent cause of this suddenly far from glacial flow rate is global warming - not because all of the ice itself is melting so fast, but because record melting at its upper surface is letting water percolate down to the bedrock, where it acts as a lubricant. Another factor, says Dowdeswell: ice "tongues" that form where glaciers meet the ocean have broken up over recent years, removing a sort of roadblock that holds them in check...
...most obvious bedrock of success is entrepreneurial spirit. The U.S. has the most risk-taking, most laissez-faire, least regulated economy in the advanced Western world. America is heartily disdained by its coddled and controlled European cousins for its cowboy capitalism. But it is precisely America's tolerance for creative destruction--industries failing, others rising, workers changing jobs and cities and skills with an alacrity and insouciance that Europeans find astonishing--that keeps its economy churning and advancing...
...tried, and failed miserably, in 1997 with their movie “The Peacemaker.” But Pinocchio’s Pizzeria, the aforementioned Winthrop St. hangout, seems to have perfected the recipe. Or, at least, so hopes the Cowperthwaite Street Project Team. To make up for the bedrock-shaking noise of the construction in the former parking lot between Dunster and Leverett Houses, the project team offered residents of the three East River Houses free Pinocchio’s pizza on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week. We tried lining our windows and floors with the pies...