Word: brushed
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...Democrats learn their way around an unfamiliar seat of power, GOP party strategists are quick brush aside any suggestion of Democratic dominance. This is hardly a situation, they remind anyone who will listen, that allows any party to assume a position of true supremacy. But the unintended consequence of all this is that the the Democratic majority gives the Republicans a foil and perhaps a campagin issue in 2002. You can imagine Bush campaigning against the Do-Nothing Democratic congress...
Grade inflation may initially relax student fears of getting “bad grades” but has not eased anxiety in the long run. Instead, grade inflation has made every grade more important. No more can students brush off one class in which they didn’t excel since the marginal value of every third of a grade has increased exponentially...
This rather bizarre brush with death occurred when O’Donnell, then a writer for the “Late Show with David Letterman,” was testing out a sketch that would be performed on that evening’s show...
...Furlaud calls this picture her one brush with the media while at Radcliffe...
...other hand, conservative Republicans might see the Jeffords brush-off as a reason to mobilize; 2002 may find them energized and ready to fight. And what the Republicans may try to do is redirect any backlash across the aisle by painting the Democrats as the party in control...