Word: bunche
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...change," he told the crowd. "No one else is going to do it. The politicians are paralyzed. The people have to do it for themselves!" He was getting charged up now. "Our democracy hasn't been working very well-that's my opinion. We've made a bunch of serious policy mistakes. But it's way too simple and way too partisan to blame the Bush-Cheney Administration. We've got checks and balances, an independent judiciary, a free press, a Congress-have they all failed us? Have we failed ourselves...
...spent the whole year working toward having a good personal season, and toward getting the team as good a season as possible. This is just one of those things—an external award—it feels like I’ve been rewarded for whole bunch of hard work I would have done anyway...
...Paris, Je T'Aime offers the (brief) pleasures of a Paris shoot to an international gang of directors and a bunch of good actors - some well-known, some less so - who have contributed 18 short films, some no more than inconsequential vignettes, other rather nicely worked out short stories, to this largely festive enterprise. All of them are handsomely mounted - Air France should work out a promotional deal with the producers - and they are variable in quality. But even when one of the pieces stutters, stammers or just lies deathly still, we are consoled by our knowledge that it will...
...coming in with a bunch of cost-cutters, [but] I'm not saying it's going to be a holiday camp for everybody...
...bunch of far-flung cousins to run the business they own as a public trust. Lately there has been much talk of restructuring news organizations as actual trusts--that is, nonprofits. Florida's St. Petersburg Times is the biggest American paper that works this way; overseas the Guardian in England and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Germany are foundation owned. Creating these entities, though, requires a far greater sacrifice than any made so far by the Bancrofts, Grahams and Sulzbergers: they would have to hand over their shares without recompense...