Word: brushed
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...conversation, campaign manager Rick Davis both boasts that McCain has the "third largest organization in the state" and says, only barely joking, "One thing I've done well as campaign manager is driving expectations in Iowa to the floorboards." Another senior adviser issues a reminder of the campaign's brush with death - "This summer you wouldn't have predicted we'd even be having this conversation" - before declaring that McCain could come in "third, maybe even second" once the caucuses roll around. The most direct answer is Davis's, and it's based on managing press expectations: McCain...
...being overly cautious? Not at all, Ting says, describing the attitude of doctors who brush off slightly elevated blood pressure as "the fatal smile" syndrome. "Patients get a clean bill of health from such doctors, and the next week they get a stroke," he says. "It's not enough to treat people with very high blood pressure. We're targeting people with no symptoms...
...Witness the taboo that is single-payer health care, something which no Democratic candidate short of Dennis Kucinich is publicly supporting. Self-described progressives can’t understand those who brush off their inexorable logic. European countries, they point out, spend a fraction of what we do on health care but have healthier populations. Thus, a single-payer system is obviously the solution...
...song might help Steinmeier, who was just named vice chancellor following the resignation of Franz Müntefering, to brush up his image and, being considered a potential candidate for chancellorship in the 2009 general elections, to gain the favor of voters that previously considered him a stone-cold bureaucrat...
...petition in Juvenile Court against the minor accused of starting the Buckweed Fire," a statement from D.A. Steve Cooley said Tuesday afternoon. "The evidence presented by Sheriff's investigators was that the fire was caused by the 10-year-old boy playing with matches and accidentally igniting the brush. There is no evidence of intent on the part of the minor. The District Attorney's Office is referring the matter to the Department of Children and Family Services for evaluation of the minor's situation to determine if other intervention is necessary...