Word: blankness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Leading Republicans, readjusting their sights after years spent anticipating a race against Hillary, noticed the same thing. Obama is "a blank canvas where voters have projected their dreams and been enthralled with his voice, looks and demeanor," said former White House political director Ed Rogers. "After 11 months of scrutiny, let's see how he holds...
...Nobel laureate, in fact, urged delegates to push ahead despite U.S. opposition, even to the point of drafting a negotiating document with blank spaces where American participation should be. But while Gore's public criticism of his own country's delegation - and implicitly, of the President who controls it - electrified his audience, what he said next was even more important. "Over the next two years, the United States is going to be somewhere it is not right now," said Gore. "We are going to change...
...succeeded because of his circumstances, just as Beilein has failed because of his. Beilein has to change his team’s identity, whereas Amaker has total freedom to institute his own. Under former coach Frank Sullivan, the Crimson had no real identity. As a result, Harvard was a blank canvas ready to be painted.Beilein must first erase, then start all over. Give Beilein time and I believe he’ll succeed.JON: As Walt mentioned, Beilein is a system coach. But it’s a system he’s had a lot of success with. Beilein...
...poll, he simply moves into the legislature in the job of Prime Minister, and inverts the constitutional relationship between the two positions by installing a supplicant in the presidency. Whatever mechanism he chooses to continue his political role, a majority of voters appear ready to give their President a blank check...
...Still, having secured his political blank check, it remains unclear how President Putin will proceed - although he may provide some hint of an answer sooner than next Spring. On December 17, All Russia is due to hold its party congress, where it is expected to name its presidential candidate for the March 2008 election. But whoever the party puts forward in the presidential race, the likelihood remains that his or her election effort will be run, like the party's parliamentary campaign, "For Putin...