Word: correcting
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...recorded that Obama's first act as President was to correct Chief Justice John Roberts, who managed somehow to mangle the 35-word oath of office, misplacing the word faithfully, as in "faithfully execute the office of President ..." Roberts then mangled it a second time, Obama raised an eyebrow, and Roberts moved on, a bumpy beginning and something of a metaphor: one of the new President's functions will be to correct the mistakes of George W. Bush's benighted tenure. Obama made that very clear in his sharply worded address, which contained few catchphrases for the history books...
...President-elect Obama was the correct choice for Person of the Year. However one cannot ignore the impact of the shoe-throwing Arab journalist. His brazen move to hurl his loafers at the outgoing President will be remembered decades from now as a fitting send-off for a man and an Administration that brought tragedy to Iraq and shame to America. It took courage, wisdom and daring to pull off his stunt. Doug Canepa, Mill Valley, Calif...
...process of being incorporated separately from the charitable foundation.) Hillary Clinton pointed out that all sponsors of the initiative are publicly disclosed. When asked by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey whether she had committed to continuing to disclose such sponsors in the future, Clinton said, "That's correct." McKenna confirmed the initiative's intention to continue disclosing donors once it spins off the foundation. (See pictures of Bill Clinton campaigning with Hillary...
...swim at your own risk - and leave the sharks alone. As Guest reportedly wrote on an anglers' website before he died: "[Sharks] got a right to be there, we've got a right to go there and there are risks associated with everything, but I don't believe the correct way of reducing our risk is to kill the shark." Luckily for the sharks, most Australians seem to think the same...
...attacking play with aggressive returns, and springs from Nadal and his uncle's contrarian instincts. Nadal is naturally right-handed. But early on, Toni decided his protégé should play with his left hand to impart unusual southpaw spin. Toni then encouraged, or perhaps failed to correct, the extreme grip Nadal uses, and the unusual way he swings his racquet. To this day, instead of using the forward momentum of his body to generate pace on his forehand as the training manuals recommend, Nadal falls backward from the net on his forehand, whipping his racquet behind his head...