Word: chased
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...While Morgan says no one is going to be foolish enough to "chase down the President of the United States" for a shot, he thinks it won't be necessary, because the Obamas seem to know how to utilize the popular press to their advantage. They have set up photo ops in the past and have allowed for others. "If they're out and we can get a shot, it's because they don't mind us being there," he says. "The Secret Service guys are cool as long as you don't do anything dangerous...
Asian communities throughout the world will mark the Lunar New Year beginning Jan. 26 with festivities that include plenty of food, firecrackers (to chase away evil spirits), red paper lanterns (red being a bright color that portends a sunny future) and dragon and lion dances for good luck. (In the dances, a group of performers holds up a model of the animal's head and a long train symbolizing its body and moves sinuously as a way to demonstrate power and dignity - no lions or dragons are harmed.) Such traditions are rooted in an astrological system that dates back...
...their interests as a white person. The question on their minds was whether the big city, Harvard educated lawyer shared and was willing to protect the values of a rural Ohioan. To them, Obama’s election wasn’t about members of the elite trying to chase the cowboys out of the White House. It was about what the Democrats can do for “me,” to restore security and maybe a little optimism to their sometimes hopeless lives. In exchange, they were willing to look past what many sensed was a values...
...Barney brokerage unit with Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management division, a deal that will bring Citi more than $2 billion - investors are worried about worsening loan losses across the banking sector and also about Citi's ability to get decent prices on any other asset sales. Even JPMorgan Chase, which reported a small fourth-quarter profit of $702 million, was the bearer of troubling news, as CEO Jamie Dimon spoke of more hard times to come. "The worst of the economic situation is not yet behind us," he said, noting that the bank's most worrisome businesses going forward...
Roosevelt did more than raise their spirits in his 15-minute Inaugural Address. He told them a story--a morality play, actually--wherein a "generation of self-seekers" on the "mad chase of evanescent profits" had disproved the existence of a benignly self-correcting business cycle. "The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization," said F.D.R., whose genius for selecting his enemies would make him as popular as he was polarizing...