Word: burnering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have a serious governance problem," says Bob Reed, a top aide to Democratic Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn, who is taking over now that Blagojevich has been ousted. "So much attention has been focused on the impeachment and now the trial that everything else has been placed on the back burner...
...Gaza was not how Israel was supposed to appear on the strategic agenda of Barack Obama when he takes office in January. Its leaders had hoped to keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the back burner of the new Administration, which Israel hopes will make Iran's nuclear program its overriding priority in the Middle East. Instead, the weekend bloodbath in Gaza - the deadliest since Israel occupied the territory in 1967 - casts the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an urgent crisis demanding a response from Washington. It also highlights the failure of the Bush Administration's and Israel's policies...
...novel about men - the lives of men, fatherhood, brotherhood, and so on. Even as I was finishing the editing of that book, I had decided that I had to write a second book and address the issues pertaining to women. So I put that idea on the back burner and just kind of let it simmer. I went to Afghanistan in the spring of 2003, and I met with people who worked for nongovernmental organizations, people who worked as policemen, women who were working as teachers, and I basically just listened to their stories. The purpose of the visit...
Four years ago, a Bush-appointed majority of the National Labor Relations Board declared that graduate students at private universities were not statutory employees—a decision that effectively neutered collective bargaining efforts by teaching assistants and relegated student unionization to the back burner...
...with Democrats now in control at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, those kinds of investigations are certain to be put on a back burner. And legislation has been Waxman's greatest passion since he was elected to Congress in the 1974 class of post-Watergate reformers. The walls of his office are covered with framed souvenir pens that were given to Waxman by Presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton in recognition of the role he played in the landmark legislation they signed into law. Among those bills were generic-drug legislation, food- and toy-safety laws, Medicare catastrophic coverage...