Word: delayer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sound of it, does it seem like Obama feels he has the luxury of waiting. "We are facing an economic crisis of historic proportion," he said. "While we cannot underestimate the challenges we face, we cannot underestimate our capacity to overcome them. We cannot hesitate and we cannot delay." (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
...requirements. Incoming students no longer have to choose—as we seniors, the last of an older generation, had to—their concentration in their freshman year, ostensibly to permit, through more freedom to sample various disciplines, thus a more meaningful choice of study. Departments did not delay to follow suit—the History Department, for example, made the previously required introductory survey optional three years...
...quarter: a delay of game, then a false start for the Crimson...
...weeks, it's easy to forget that Democrats were in a state of absolute despair not so long ago. At the dawn of 2003, the House, the Senate and the White House lay in Republican hands, while the Supreme Court threatened to tilt further to the right. Rep. Tom Delay, then the Republican majority leader, was overheard calling out, while smoking a cigar in a government building, "I am the federal government...
...Democratic surrogates also receive daily talking points from the group. Meanwhile, liberal blogs have long become an echo chamber for CAP's own Internet outreach program, which produces reams of information that highlighted contradictions or hypocrisies in McCain's policy positions and campaign rhetoric. (The above quote from DeLay, for instance, was originally reported by the Washington Post, but thanks to the work of CAP bloggers doing outreach to college students it has been replicated on websites across the Internet. Left out of the echo is the claim by DeLay aides to the Post that, when confronted about his cigar...