Word: core
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Five years ago, Jose Padilla was the Dirty Bomber, a "known terrorist" at the core of "an unfolding terrorist plot" to wreak havoc on the United States with a "radioactive dirty bomb," as then-Attorney General John Ashcroft proclaimed...
...Romney convince voters there is indeed a core somewhere in the middle of all those contortions? That challenge could determine whether he's in the race for the long haul or just an early, forgettable flash. Of the many reasons the last Presidential candidate from Massachusetts lost, nothing was so devastating as the 13 words John Kerry would give anything to take back: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." But given that we've had three years since then to reckon with the consequences of inflexibility on Iraq, maybe there...
...leading opponents, John McCain and Mitt Romney, say the influence of the big states is overrated; that with so many candidates chasing votes in so many places, the influence of the first states will actually be magnified, not diminished. And they believe that the Republican party is, at its core, pro-life - no matter how many "big tent" speeches delegates have endured at recent G.O.P. conventions...
...Thursday morning, on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander delivered a speech in which he promised to introduce legislation in a few weeks that would more or less make the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group proposals of last December (which emphasized the training of Iraqi forces at the core of the U.S. military mission in Iraq) as "the basis for future U.S. strategy in Iraq." Alexander's measure is not a resolution; if passed, it would go to the President's desk for his signature - or veto...
...Alexander had been pressing the White House in speeches for months to adopt the Baker-Hamilton proposals as its own guide, its own core strategy, for extricating itself from Iraq. The bipartisan commission made more than 70 recommendations to step up diplomacy and move the U.S. toward a phased withdrawal from Iraq...