Word: closedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Campaigning for Obama? In "The Lying Game," Joe Klein deployed his facts selectively to argue that Senator John McCain is running a dishonest campaign [Sept. 29]. Wow - so Barack Obama hasn't told any lies? Klein then predicted that things would change in the debates, since "it isn't easy...
If Barack Obama is elected president of the United States on Nov. 4 - a prospect that is beginning to seem likely now - it may turn out that he closed the deal with a simple answer to a not-so-simple question posed by Tom Brokaw in the second presidential debate...
Highlight Reel:1. An epiphany beneath the huge statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro: "Suddenly the clouds broke, revealing the giant figure of Jesus Christ above us, with His outstretched arms. The moment was beyond any rational description...I had come thousands of miles to stand here...
That response did come. The Federal Reserve said it would lower interest rates by 50 basis points along with five other central banks: the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss, Canadian and Swedish banks. But the announcement arrived after Asian markets had closed, too late to...
"Remember markets are global," an anxious Treasury official reminded journalists leaving the building after a briefing as word filtered through that the formal announcement of the rescue package had failed to immediately restore optimism in the market. At market close, London's FTSE-100 index had fallen by 5.18%, even...