Word: boated
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...other side of town, government supporters were enjoying a night that exceeded all their hopes. If the 2001 election had seemed a bitter referendum on Australia's handling of asylum-seeker boat arrivals, this time the focus was much closer to home. "It's all about the economy," said 28-year-old supporter Stephanie Miles. "I know people who don't like John Howard but they voted for him because the economy's working. It's all working." The equation hadn't always seemed so simple. When Howard called the election on Aug. 29, he went into the campaign with...
...punch event involves taking a boat somewhere, don’t get so drunk you pass out and fall off the back of the boat. This is how people...
...rebels are probably still lurking in the city, hoping to blend back in or waiting for their chance to flee. It is now up to Iraqi forces to sniff them out. Some insurgents may have already been nabbed making their getaway--like six men who were captured in a boat crossing a river on Saturday--but it's hard to tell because once they put down their weapons, they could just as easily be seen as civilians. When a platoon was ambushed on a residential street late on Friday--triggering a blazing exchange between two U.S. units--four unarmed...
...College Dems—not to mention Nader’s unimpressive and angry sensitivity to such taunting—is frustrating. The Forum should be a place for sober and respectful civil discourse, something that is hard to find in an era of meaningless sound-bites and swift-boat ads. Everyone who made Nader’s visit such a circus should be ashamed...
...curb outrageous campaign contributions that had been the source of so much political woe. Yet, on both sides of the political spectrum, groups quickly mobilized to find ways around the legislation, establishing all sorts of loophole groups that fell under the radar of soft-money restraints. The Swift Boat Veterans and their Texan philanthropists are simply a flagrant example of the way in which these groups are succeeding in their efforts to skirt rules and manipulate the media...