Word: blinks
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...change in this country." But in the days leading up to his surprise announcement, surveys had hinted that voters might indeed want change - from Labour to its closest rival, the Conservative Party. And although most pundits believe Labour would have won a majority, the fear of losing made Brown blink. Now his party is bracing for a backlash. "It's a question of character," says a Labour insider. Party members also shudder remembering how in 1978, Prime Minister James Callaghan - who was ahead in the polls and seemed poised to win his own mandate - unexpectedly shied away from calling elections...
...change in this country." But in the days leading up to his surprise announcement, surveys had hinted that voters might indeed want change--from Labour to its closest rival, the Conservative Party. And although most pundits believe Labour would have won a majority, the fear of losing made Brown blink. Now his party is bracing for a backlash. "It's a question of character," says a Labour insider. Party members also shudder remembering how in 1978, Prime Minister James Callaghan--who was ahead in the polls and seemed poised to win his own mandate--unexpectedly shied away from calling elections...
...called about a week ago to say that she had confused this middle school joke of a video for the real one, and that she thought someone as successful Kanye West would have put more money into it. I guess the irony worked. Kenny Chesney "Don't Blink" Dir. Shaun Silva From the great expanses of middle America comes a guy who probably has more real fans than Kanye and Fiddy put together. Turns out that Chesney released an album of his own on Sept. 11: "Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates." In the album's meditative, mildly-scolding...
...donned rubber bracelets and piled into the hatchback of whichever friend had most recently learned to drive. Once we got there, we were a lot more concerned with the contents of our illicit “water” bottles than we were with the musical styling of Blink-182. By this token, I regularly made the trek to see some of the worst college-rock bills on the summer-touring circuit...
...months that QuickScat, which was launched in 1999 and is well past its lifespan, needs to be replaced as soon as possible. And he has publicly criticized his bosses at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for not acting quickly enough. If QuickScat were to go on the blink, he claims, the accuracy of the center's three-day hurricane forecasts could drop...