Word: blanks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...watershed opportunity created by Mayor Anthony Williams' stepping down after eight years on the job. Just over 32% of D.C. voters bothered to show up at polling places Tuesday. And unlike in neighboring, affluent Montgomery County, Md., where a series of screwups left voters writing their choices down on blank paper for officials to collect and count later, there were no long lines or busted machines keeping people away. Preliminary statistics show overall turnout in D.C. was actually lower this year than in 2002, when the incumbent Williams ran without serious opposition and had to organize a write-in campaign...
...familiarity they've got, thanks to the staggering success of the tabloids. Instead of the escapist "insert yourself here" print ads and commercials featuring the (relatively) blank canvas of a model, we're met with a face so familiar that we know not only the box-office stats of her last movie but also the names of her children and which coffee chain she prefers. And given that the financial stakes are so high?with Oscar winners demanding beauty contracts worth up to $12 million a pop?the question is, Is she really worth...
...sent Jamie some pictures and talked up my brand to her, which I described as being a perfect blank slate?one that had been building equity not only because I write about myself ad nauseam but also because I talk about myself ad nauseam to my friends and family...
...relief of everyone else. Elections happened as usual. When torture was used against suspected terrorists, for example, the press howled. When suspects were detained without charge, the courts intervened. As Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor put it, "A state of war isn't a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens." To many Americans, indeed, the whole point of the war was to preserve their country's democratic institutions. And unlike its fighting partners in World War II, when the Soviet despot Joseph Stalin was a confederate, America...
...Harvard, your blank slate can often be an opportunity to overload you with overburdening, weighty requirements and excruciating introductory courses. But amidst the dull lectures, there are plenty of enjoyable options...