Word: broking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...central argument - that the race is not over, that he might still pull this thing out - is not completely unreasonable. It is not just that McCain has stared long odds in the face before and triumphed, as he did when his campaign collapsed in the summer of 2007, financially broke and in disarray. Back then, trusted friends advised him to withdraw rather than suffer a humiliating defeat. Even some of his closest associates were ready to give up, and it fell to McCain to tell them to quit feeling sorry for themselves, to lecture them about what it means...
...major disappointment, though not so much of a surprise. The Chinese must have know this was coming - some of the responsible officials in fact must be very pleased that they have managed to provoke this reaction. Now they can say that it was the other side that broke off negotiations, and claim the moral high ground...
...Nearly a week after news broke that the IMF had contracted a Washington D.C. law firm to investigate whether Strauss-Kahn had abused the power of his job in dealing with an avowed affair with a co-worker, the organization's Executive Board cleared the Frenchman of any dismissible violation of ethics codes. In doing so, however, its members made their disdain of Strauss-Kahn's adulterous behavior clear. In a statement released late Oct. 25, the Board said the independent inquiry "concluded that there was no harassment, favoritism, or any other abuse of authority." But it went...
...early October, Madelyn Dunham, her mobility already limited by osteoporosis, slipped in her apartment and broke her hip. She has since suffered from undisclosed, serious medical problems. Obama made the decision to temporarily postpone his campaign on Thursday night and Friday because he did not want to live through the same experience in 1995 when he arrived too late to say farewell to his mother who died of cancer at the age of 53, says U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie. "Those of us who live here in the Islands are used to how long it takes to get here," Abercrombie says...
...seemingly unwitting instigator of the latest Haider frenzy is his former spokesman and confidante Petzner. Petzner, who became acting head of the Alliance for the Future of Austria following Haider's death, held a press conference on the morning of the accident in which he repeatedly broke down in tears and referred to the loss of Haider as "the end of the world." In a subsequent interview on Austrian radio, Petzner said of Haider: "He often said to me, 'You are my lebensmensch [life partner]'. He and I know what this means, and it should stay between...