Word: catapulting
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...marry because they weren't serious. If your rights don't have the same name, they don't have the same protection or the same standing." Zerolo, whose wedding was one of the approximately 10,000 gay marriages licensed under the new law, is proud to see Spain catapult itself from behind the curve to ahead of it on these issues. "This the first time in Spanish history that we are world leaders in equality," he says. "With an effervescent economy and the recognition of the dignity of every man and woman, we are a country prepared for the future...
...After that, the race moves on to Florida, where Rudy Giuliani, who largely skipped the first three states, has parked himself for several weeks, is spending heavily from a war chest thought to be at least $4 million and hopes to catapult ahead of his rivals with a win. Then comes the 21-state vote on Feb. 5, where some, but not all, of the states award their delegates on a proportional basis. Depending on who wins what, all that could prolong the search for a winner, raising the possibility that the party might enter its August convention with...
...person seated behind me: When you hoist yourself up by my seat back, that seat back becomes a catapult, and I become its payload...
...host at a global concert for the planet, he's never done more than tease the idea. And yet all that time, the leaders of the Draft Gore movement have been clinging to a single fervid dream: that Gore would win the Nobel Peace Prize and use it to catapult himself to an eleventh-hour bid for the presidency...
John Edwards is betting that a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses will catapult him into national contention, and so far his strategy in the state is on track. A new TIME poll of likely Iowa caucus goers, taken a week after Edwards' seven-day, 31-stop bus tour of the state, gives Edwards 29% of the vote, five points ahead of Hillary Clinton and seven ahead of Barack Obama. This latest TIME Poll of 519 likely Iowa Democratic caucus goers finds that, among the so-called "second-tier" candidates, Bill Richardson has 11%, with Joe Biden at 5%, Dennis...