Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their seats are so safe that they risk absolutely nothing with a free walloping." And this time the maverick brought it on himself. "McCain tripped up," says Dickerson. "By bringing up specific pork barrel projects ?- which are a problem but not nearly as serious as, say, a big tax break to an industry that contributes millions to a party ? his rhetoric outstripped the larger, valid point he?s trying to make. So they jumped...
Replacing exhausted tri-captain Dominique Kalil at the midpoint of the second half, Gambale used her break-away speed to fight into the clear past a pair of Husky defenders, only to lose the handle before she could pull the trigger...
...preppiness, hopping taxis to get to whatever downtown big-shot wants them, and how to tie a bow-tie without a mirror. Surely they will learn how to guzzle the Dark and Stormy, the drink of choice for the Kroks when they visit Bermuda, which they do every spring break. They will learn how to make audiences laugh and how to raise hairs on spines. But in all likelihood, they won't really learn what it is they have done, what they have become, until years later, when they are no longer young, charming, and naive. The mantle will long...
...common sense person will come to the conclusion that [the Canadian] experience has been a good one," Charest said. "It would be extremely difficult to make a case that the people of Quebec have been oppressed to the point that they would have to break away...
...moderators. Questions, even if predictable, help set a baseline for a campaign and provide a chance for the electorate to see the candidates in close quarters. It is an opportunity to see which, if any, issues divide the candidates within a party, and a chance for candidates to break out of assumed norms and take risks. Debates are unpredictable, a fact alone that might help encourage the media to turn their attention to issues and away from mere name recognition...