Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vacate my seat, you may ask, if I take issue with your style, substance and mission to fracture the Republican Party? The reason is simple: leaving the talk would have meant giving up a rare opportunity to peer into the bottom of the American political barrel and the outright perversion of dialogue and the English language. Note that I didn’t stay because I was outraged or secretly thrilled by your audacious accusations and asides; the experience was more like staring at a car wreck. I don’t know, Ms. Coulter, if you thought...
...year diplomat described a posting in Iraq as "a potential death sentence." After the hubbub, enough volunteers stepped forward, so no one was ordered to go to Iraq. But the incident laid bare the cultural aversion some tweedy diplomats have to the realities of the changing world beyond Foggy Bottom. After the town hall, Rice, says a close adviser, was even more determined to make sure the department had the right people serving in the most difficult places. "We are trying to do things, quite literally, that have never been done before," Rice told the audience at Georgetown. "America must...
...elected. It's not my job to get them elected. And when they lose, I don't take it personally. And Romney was like every other candidate in our field. The reason that we're in this mess is because not one of our candidates, from top to bottom, fully met or meets the three-legged stool of conservatism. You've got this foreign policy crowd, you've got the fiscal conservative-small government crowd and you've got the social and cultural crowd. We didn't have one candidate who wrapped them all up. As such, the conservative voter...
...staff turnover-which is especially rapid among new teachers. Finding and keeping high-quality teachers are key to America's competitiveness as a nation. Recent test results show that U.S. 10th-graders ranked just 17th in science among peers from 30 nations, while in math they placed in the bottom five. Research suggests that a good teacher is the single most important factor in boosting achievement, more important than class size, the dollars spent per student or the quality of textbooks and materials...
...list," which was used to recover pieces stolen from Jews by the Nazis. A five-year study undertaken by the Swiss government determined in 2001 that Bührle, who died in 1956, had acquired "flight art" ? works smuggled out of Axis-controlled areas and sold at rock-bottom prices...