Word: bulls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then ... The women got busy lighting fires and hanging washing, and the men discussed the best way to kill a bull and even the journalists eased off and relaxed. President Obama, it turns out, owns four acres in Kogelo. I took a walk on his field. He has a nice maize crop. And a very promisng field of millet. More important, he has a great view. - By Alex Perry / Kogelo...
Blood flowed as Election Day dawned in Barack Obama's ancestral village in western Kenya. The presidential candidate's half-brother Malik tied a bull to a tree, then hobbled it, and asked me to hold the beast's head to the ground as he drew a machete across its jugular. "Hold this guy down now," said Malik, 50, eyeing the animal's horns as blood poured from its throat like an open tap. "He could kill me now." After five minutes, the blood flow began to slow, and the fight went out of the animal, which stopped kicking...
...Bull markets, so they say, climb a wall of worry. But some market watchers see the current wall as just too steep...
...cycle got its most vigorous workout during the whirlwind introduction of Sarah Palin. John McCain's Veep passed from surprise (who is this woman?) to novelty (beauty queen who shoots moose) to scandal (her daughter's pregnant) to obituary (will McCain drop her?) to resurrection (she's a pit bull with lipstick) to skepticism (but can she appeal beyond the base?) at the speed of a snowmobile...
...message wars. Democrats methodically fired laser-guided missiles at McCain (that he's in lockstep with Bush and represents more of the same), while Republicans hurled every pot and pan within reach at the Teflon opposition (Obama is a socialist; Obama is a celebrity, etc.). The occasional GOP bull's-eye was overshadowed by many misses. The Obama campaign is enjoying the strongest close of a presidential-election effort in recent memory: mammoth crowds--more than 100,000 at a rally in St. Louis, Mo.--massive spending and poll numbers above 50% in some national and state surveys. A political...